User:Vbbhasti/Books/Paradoxes

Situations that seems to defy intuition

 * Introduction
 * List of paradoxes


 * Decision theory
 * Abilene paradox
 * Apportionment paradox
 * Arrow's impossibility theorem
 * Buridan's ass
 * Chainstore paradox
 * Decision-making paradox
 * Exchange paradox
 * Fenno's paradox
 * Fredkin's paradox
 * Green paradox
 * Hedgehog's dilemma
 * Inventor's paradox
 * Kavka's toxin puzzle
 * Morton's fork
 * Navigation paradox
 * Newcomb's paradox
 * Paradox of tolerance
 * Paradox of voting
 * Parrondo's paradox
 * Prevention paradox
 * Prisoner's dilemma
 * Voting paradox
 * Willpower paradox


 * Economy
 * Allais paradox
 * Angus Deaton
 * Arrow information paradox
 * Bertrand paradox
 * Braess' paradox
 * Demographic-economic paradox
 * Dollar auction
 * Downs–Thomson paradox
 * Easterlin paradox
 * Ellsberg paradox
 * European paradox
 * Gibson's paradox
 * Giffen good
 * Icarus paradox
 * Jevons paradox
 * Leontief paradox
 * Lucas paradox
 * Mandeville's paradox
 * Mayfield's paradox
 * Metzler paradox
 * Paradox of prosperity
 * Paradox of thrift
 * Paradox of toil
 * Paradox of value
 * Productivity paradox
 * Resource curse
 * Scitovsky paradox
 * Service recovery paradox
 * St. Petersburg paradox
 * The Antitrust Paradox
 * Tullock paradox


 * Logic
 * All horses are the same color
 * Barbershop paradox
 * Crocodile Dilemma
 * Drinker paradox
 * Infinite regress
 * Lottery paradox
 * Paradoxes of material implication
 * Raven paradox
 * Unexpected hanging paradox
 * What the Tortoise Said to Achilles


 * Mathematics
 * Cramer's paradox
 * Elevator paradox
 * Gambler's fallacy
 * Gödel's incompleteness theorems
 * Interesting number paradox
 * Kleene–Rosser paradox
 * Low birth weight paradox
 * Paradoxes of set theory
 * Von Neumann paradox


 * Miscellaneous
 * Ant on a rubber rope
 * Buttered cat paradox
 * Lombard's Paradox
 * Observer's paradox


 * Philosophy
 * Argument from free will
 * Fitch's paradox of knowability
 * Liberal paradox
 * Meno
 * Mere addition paradox
 * Moore's paradox
 * Movement paradox
 * Omnipotence paradox
 * Paradox of analysis
 * Paradox of fiction
 * Paradox of hedonism
 * Paradox of nihilism
 * Pareto efficiency
 * Predestination paradox
 * Preface paradox
 * Problem of evil
 * Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language
 * When a white horse is not a horse


 * Physics
 * Archimedes paradox
 * Braess's paradox
 * Cool tropics paradox
 * Irresistible force paradox
 * Ontological paradox
 * Physical paradox


 * Self-reference
 * Barber paradox
 * Berry paradox
 * Epimenides paradox
 * Grelling–Nelson paradox
 * Intentionally blank page
 * Liar paradox
 * Opposite Day
 * Paradox of the Court
 * Petronius
 * Quine's paradox
 * Richard's paradox
 * Self-reference
 * Socratic paradox
 * Yablo's paradox


 * Vagueness
 * Absence paradox
 * Bonini's paradox
 * Ship of Theseus


 * Statistics
 * Abelson's paradox
 * Accuracy paradox
 * Benford's law
 * Berkson's paradox
 * Freedman's paradox
 * Friendship paradox
 * Lindley's paradox
 * Low birth-weight paradox
 * Renewal theory
 * Simpson's paradox
 * Will Rogers phenomenon


 * Probability
 * Bertrand paradox
 * Bertrand's box paradox
 * Birthday problem
 * Borel–Kolmogorov paradox
 * Boy or Girl paradox
 * False positive paradox
 * Paul Grice
 * Monty Hall problem
 * Necktie paradox
 * Proebsting's paradox
 * Sleeping Beauty problem
 * Three Prisoners problem
 * Two envelopes problem


 * Infinity and infinitesimals
 * Burali-Forti paradox
 * Cantor's paradox
 * Galileo's paradox
 * Russell's paradox
 * Hilbert's paradox of the Grand Hotel
 * Skolem's paradox
 * Zeno's paradoxes
 * Supertask
 * Ross–Littlewood paradox
 * Thomson's lamp


 * Geometry and topology
 * Banach–Tarski paradox
 * Paradoxical set
 * Coastline paradox
 * Coin rotation paradox
 * Gabriel's Horn
 * Klein bottle
 * Hausdorff paradox
 * Missing square puzzle
 * Nikodym set


 * Astrophysics
 * Algol paradox
 * Faint young Sun paradox
 * Greisen–Zatsepin–Kuzmin limit
 * Galactic Center


 * Classical Mechanics
 * Archer's paradox
 * Vertical pressure variation
 * Aristotle's wheel paradox
 * Carroll's paradox
 * D'Alembert's paradox
 * Denny's paradox
 * Elevator paradox (physics)
 * Feynman sprinkler
 * Painlevé paradox
 * Tea leaf paradox
 * Upstream contamination


 * Cosmology
 * Bentley's paradox
 * Boltzmann brain
 * Fermi paradox
 * Heat death paradox
 * Olbers' paradox


 * Quantum Mechanics
 * Aharonov–Bohm effect
 * Bell's theorem
 * Double-slit experiment
 * EPR paradox
 * Extinction paradox
 * Hardy's paradox
 * Klein paradox
 * Mott problem
 * Quantum LC circuit
 * Quantum pseudo-telepathy
 * Quantum Zeno effect
 * Schrödinger's cat


 * Relativity
 * Bell's spaceship paradox
 * Black hole information paradox
 * Ehrenfest paradox
 * Ladder paradox
 * Velocity-addition formula
 * Supplee's paradox


 * Thermodynamics
 * Gibbs paradox
 * Loschmidt's paradox
 * Maxwell's demon
 * Mpemba effect


 * Biology
 * High-Nutrient, low-chlorophyll
 * C-value
 * Semelparity and iteroparity
 * Gray's paradox
 * Lek mating
 * Lombard's paradox
 * Paradox of enrichment
 * Paradox of the pesticides
 * Paradox of the plankton
 * Sherman paradox
 * Temporal paradox (paleontology)


 * Health and Nutrition
 * French paradox
 * Glucose paradox
 * Hispanic paradox
 * Israeli paradox
 * Mexican paradox
 * Obesity paradox
 * Peto's paradox
 * Pulsus paradoxus


 * Chemistry
 * Faraday paradox (electrochemistry)
 * Levinthal's paradox
 * Quantitative structure–activity relationship


 * Time
 * Joseph Polchinski
 * Causal loop
 * Temporal paradox
 * Grandfather paradox


 * Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence
 * Bracketing paradox
 * Code-talker paradox
 * Moravec's paradox
 * Sayre's paradox
 * Buridan's bridge
 * New riddle of induction
 * Dream argument


 * Mysticism
 * Tzimtzum


 * Perception
 * Tritone paradox
 * Shepard tone
 * Paul Graham (computer programmer)
 * Optical illusion


 * Politics
 * Stability–instability paradox


 * Psychology and Sociology
 * Gender paradox
 * Paradox
 * Outcomes paradox
 * Status paradox
 * The Paradox of Anti-Semitism
 * Region-beta paradox
 * Self-absorption paradox
 * Stapp's ironical paradox
 * James Stockdale
 * Ironic process theory


 * Supplementary Notes
 * 0.999...
 * Auto-antonym
 * Absurdity
 * Excusable negligence
 * Ignore all rules
 * Informal fallacy
 * Mathematical fallacy
 * Paradox gun
 * Paradoxical laughter
 * Performative contradiction
 * Puzzle
 * Ridiculous
 * Theories of humor