Timeline for Positive results coming from paradoxes
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| Sep 19, 2021 at 9:31 | history | edited | Stefan Kohl♦ |
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| Dec 16, 2012 at 21:42 | vote | accept | Feldmann Denis | ||
| Dec 16, 2012 at 17:09 | comment | added | Gil Kalai | Dear quid, maybe the following list of paradoxes en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_paradoxes is more useful than an actual definition... | |
| Dec 16, 2012 at 11:52 | comment | added | Gil Kalai | A paradox for which I don't know of interesting follow-up (and in fact , I find it hard to convince that it is an interesting paradox) is the cheap-horses paradox: Rare things are expensive; cheap horses are rare; Therefore cheap horses are expensive. | |
| Dec 16, 2012 at 6:13 | answer | added | Gil Kalai | timeline score: 5 | |
| Dec 16, 2012 at 3:34 | answer | added | Steven Landsburg | timeline score: 9 | |
| Dec 15, 2012 at 18:31 | answer | added | Gerhard Paseman | timeline score: 2 | |
| Dec 15, 2012 at 16:08 | answer | added | Todd Trimble | timeline score: 8 | |
| Dec 15, 2012 at 14:40 | comment | added | Joel David Hamkins | Perhaps this is the kind of thing you mean: mathoverflow.net/questions/53498/nontrivial-circular-arguments/…? | |
| Dec 15, 2012 at 14:17 | comment | added | Rafał Gruszczyński | It is not very correct to say that first incompleteness theorem is formalization of the Liar. As positive results which found their inspiration in paradoxes I'd rather mention development of type theory or various axiomatizations of intuitive theory of sets. But I am not sure whether OP would consider this as an answer to his question. | |
| Dec 15, 2012 at 14:14 | answer | added | Andrej Bauer | timeline score: 5 | |
| Dec 15, 2012 at 13:28 | comment | added | user9072 | Could you perhaps elaborate what you want to be understood by a 'paradox.' | |
| Dec 15, 2012 at 12:11 | history | asked | Feldmann Denis | CC BY-SA 3.0 |