Paradox

Paradoxes emerge not just in salons and ivory towers but in everyday life. (An Internet search for "paradox" brings forth a picture of an ashtray with a "no smoking" symbol inscribed on it.) Proposing solutions, Cuonzo writes, is a natural response to paradoxes. She invites us to...

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Main Author: Cuonzo, Margaret, 1969-
Format: Book
Language: English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2014]
Physical Description: xiv, 225 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.
Series: MIT Press essential knowledge series.
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505 0 |a Is there trouble in paradox? -- New way to think about paradoxes and solutions -- How to solve paradoxes -- Paradox lost? On the successes (and failures) of solutions to paradoxes. 
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