Suppose your friend asks you a question. It can only be answered with yes or no. The question is, have you stopped stealing?
What will you answer now? If you say "yes". It means that you used to be a thief, but now you have stopped stealing. And if you answer "no". So, you still steal.
Where do you go now?
This is where the idea of paradox comes from. Sometimes there is a problem whose answer is both positive and negative, or both are wrong.
"A paradox is when two self-contained things in a theory, statement, etc. contradict each other."
Many people sometimes face many kinds of paradoxes. It is explained below:
○ Stranger Paradox:
A city has a strange law! When someone comes there, the city guard wants to know why he came to the city. There is no defense if the answer is wrong. Immediately hanged. Once, a stranger came to this city. As usual, the city guard asked why he came here. The stranger replied that he had come to hang himself. The city guard fell into great trouble. If hanged, the stranger's words would come true. But no one can be hanged for telling the truth. And if the stranger is not hanged, then the rules of the city are broken, and the man's answer is false.
○ Truth-Liar Paradox:
If someone says, I have never spoken the truth in my life, that is also a paradox. Because if he is not telling the truth, then his words are also false. If this statement is false, he is truthful. If he is truthful, this statement is also true. So he is a liar...
What trouble...
○ Chicken-and-Egg Paradox:
The egg first, or the chicken first? If the egg is first, then that egg came from which chicken? If the chicken came first, which egg did the chicken come from?
○ Snake and Tail Paradox:
If a snake starts to eat its tail, what will happen in the end?
○ Restaurant Paradox:
If someone says, No one goes to that restaurant because it is always crowded, it is a paradox. Because if no one goes, how is the crowd? Again, if there is no crowd, everyone will go there; if everyone goes, it will be crowded. If it is crowded, no one will go. If no one goes, there won't be a crowd.
○ Swimming Paradox:
If someone says, "You shouldn't go near water without learning to swim," it's a paradox. You cannot go near the water without learning how to swim, and you cannot learn to swim without going into the water. If you don't learn to swim, you can't go in the water.
○ Keyboard Paradox:
Those who use the Microsoft operating system, Sometimes it happens to them.
Keyboard not found
Press any key to continue...
If the keyboard key doesn't work, How do I press the key?
○ Grandfather Paradox:
Suppose you invent a time machine. Through that time machine, you reach your grandfather's childhood. Then you killed your childhood grandfather. Now, if your grandfather was killed, how was your father born? And if your father was not born, how were you born? And if you were not born, then how did you kill your grandfather?
○ Paradox of difference:
If the saying "every rule has an exception" is true, then there will be exceptions to this rule. That means there will be no exceptions to all the rules. So what happened? There are exceptions to every rule, and there are no exceptions to all rules. So which is the correct answer?
Thousands more such examples can be given with paradox. Paradox is indeed a complex matter. None of the paradoxes can be properly answered to date.
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