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denotation), name, or concept (sense). The ontology was developed by Alonzo Church based on ideas of Gottlob Frege to resolve some paradoxes. The ontology...

Zeno's paradoxes are a series of philosophical arguments presented by the ancient Greek philosopher Zeno of Elea (c. 490–430 BC), primarily known through...

The sorites paradox (/soʊˈraɪtiːz/; sometimes known as the paradox of the heap) is a paradox that results from vague predicates. A typical formulation...

1894 issue of Mind. The name comes from the "ornamental" short story that Carroll uses in the article to illustrate the paradox. It existed previously...

The Banach–Tarski paradox is a theorem in set-theoretic geometry, which states the following: Given a solid ball in three-dimensional space, there exists...

In mathematical logic, Russell's paradox (also known as Russell's antinomy) is a set-theoretic paradox published by the British philosopher and mathematician...

Peto's paradox is the observation that, at the species level, the incidence of cancer does not appear to correlate with the number of cells in an organism...

The teletransportation paradox or teletransport paradox (also known in alternative forms as the duplicates paradox) is a thought experiment on the philosophy...

In set theory, a field of mathematics, the Burali-Forti paradox demonstrates that constructing "the set of all ordinal numbers" leads to a contradiction...

paradox, named after Stanford business professor Charles Bonini, explains the difficulty in constructing models or simulations that fully capture the...

The Berry paradox is a self-referential paradox arising from an expression like "The smallest positive integer not definable in under sixty letters" (a...

The gender-equality paradox is the finding that various gender differences in personality and occupational choice are larger in more gender equal countries...

The sad clown paradox is the contradictory association, in performers, between comedy and mental disorders such as depression and anxiety. For those affected...

binary relation associates elements of one set, called the domain, with elements of another set, called the codomain. Precisely, a binary relation over...

entangled particles (EPR paradox). According to EPR, one could measure the position of one of the entangled particles and the momentum of the second particle,...

The liberal paradox, also Sen paradox or Sen's paradox, is a logical paradox proposed by Amartya Sen which shows that no means of aggregating individual...

Skolem's paradox is the apparent contradiction that a countable model of first-order set theory could contain an uncountable set. The paradox arises from...

relation to angular accelerations: Grøn (1979), MacGregor (1981), Grøn (1982, 2003). Similarly, in the case of Bell's spaceship paradox the relation between...

list of notable historical references to the name Palestine as a place name for the region of Palestine throughout history. This includes uses of the localized...

In set theory, Cantor's paradox states that there is no set of all cardinalities. This is derived from the theorem that there is no greatest cardinal number...