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A positive paradox:
{ 1 } - stops the thinking process.
{ 2 } - appears true but is actually self-contradictory.
{ 3 } - appears self-contradictory but is actually true.
{ 4 } - is an example of relativism.
{ 5 } - is an example of skepticism.
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A positive paradox:
{ 1 } - stops the thinking process.
{ 2 } - appears true but is actually self-contradictory.
{ 3 } - appears self-contradictory but is actually true.
{ 4 } - is an example of relativism.
{ 5 } - is an example of skepticism.
A negative paradox, being self-contradictory, does this. The mind cannot think a self-contradiction. See page 21.
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A positive paradox:
{ 1 } - stops the thinking process.
{ 2 } - appears true but is actually self-contradictory.
{ 3 } - appears self-contradictory but is actually true.
{ 4 } - is an example of relativism.
{ 5 } - is an example of skepticism.
This would be a negative paradox, an obstacle to philosophy because it is self-contradictory and thus meaningless, nonsense, but it is especially dangerous because it seems to be reasonable and to make sense. See page 21.
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A positive paradox:
{ 1 } - stops the thinking process.
{ 2 } - appears true but is actually self-contradictory.
{ 3 } - appears self-contradictory but is actually true.
{ 4 } - is an example of relativism.
{ 5 } - is an example of skepticism.
See page 21. "Positive paradoxes can be aids to philosophy because they shock one into thinking and discovering a truth that is not immediately obvious."
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A positive paradox:
{ 1 } - stops the thinking process.
{ 2 } - appears true but is actually self-contradictory.
{ 3 } - appears self-contradictory but is actually true.
{ 4 } - is an example of relativism.
{ 5 } - is an example of skepticism.
Relativism, the doctrine that asserts that every truth is relative to individual, time, or group and that there is no truth that is absolute or always true, is an example of a negative paradox. See p. 22.
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A positive paradox:
{ 1 } - stops the thinking process.
{ 2 } - appears true but is actually self-contradictory.
{ 3 } - appears self-contradictory but is actually true.
{ 4 } - is an example of relativism.
{ 5 } - is an example of skepticism.
Absolute skepticism, a doctrine that asserts that "Knowledge is not possible," is an example of negative paradox.
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