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Paradoxes
Situations which defy intuition
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Paradoxes[edit]

Situations that seems to defy intuition[edit]

Introduction
Paradox
List of paradoxes
Paradoxical laughter
Decision theory
Abilene paradox
Chainstore paradox
Exchange paradox
Kavka's toxin puzzle
Necktie paradox
Economy
Allais paradox
Arrow's impossibility theorem
Bertrand paradox
Demographic-economic paradox
Dollar auction
Downs–Thomson paradox
Easterlin paradox
Ellsberg paradox
Green paradox
Icarus paradox
Jevons paradox
Leontief paradox
Lucas paradox
Metzler paradox
Paradox of thrift
Paradox of value
Productivity paradox
St. Petersburg paradox
Logic
All horses are the same color
Barbershop paradox
Carroll's 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
Accuracy paradox
Apportionment paradox
Banach–Tarski paradox
Berkson's paradox
Bertrand's box paradox
Bertrand paradox
Birthday problem
Borel–Kolmogorov paradox
Boy or Girl paradox
Burali-Forti paradox
Cantor's paradox
Coastline paradox
Cramer's paradox
Elevator paradox
False positive paradox
Gabriel's Horn
Galileo's paradox
Gambler's fallacy
Gödel's incompleteness theorems
Interesting number paradox
Kleene–Rosser paradox
Lindley's paradox
Low birth weight paradox
Missing square puzzle
Paradoxes of set theory
Parrondo's paradox
Russell's paradox
Simpson's paradox
Skolem's paradox
Sphere eversion
Thomson's lamp
Two envelopes problem
Von Neumann paradox
Miscellaneous
Bracketing paradox
Buridan's ass
Buttered cat paradox
Lombard's Paradox
Mere addition paradox
Navigation paradox
Paradox of the plankton
Temporal paradox
Tritone paradox
Voting paradox
Philosophy
Fitch's paradox of knowability
Grandfather paradox
Liberal paradox
Moore's paradox
Moravec's paradox
Newcomb's paradox
Omnipotence paradox
Paradox of hedonism
Paradox of nihilism
Paradox of tolerance
Predestination paradox
Zeno's paradoxes
Physics
Algol paradox
Archimedes paradox
Aristotle's wheel paradox
Bell's spaceship paradox
Bentley's paradox
Black hole information paradox
Braess's paradox
Cool tropics paradox
D'Alembert's paradox
Denny's paradox
Ehrenfest paradox
Elevator paradox
EPR paradox
Faint young Sun paradox
Fermi paradox
Feynman sprinkler
Gibbs paradox
Hardy's paradox
Heat death paradox
Irresistible force paradox
Ladder paradox
Loschmidt's paradox
Mpemba effect
Olbers' paradox
Ontological paradox
Painlevé paradox
Physical paradox
Quantum pseudo-telepathy
Schrödinger's cat
Supplee's paradox
Tea leaf paradox
Twin 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
Bonini's paradox
Code-talker paradox
Ship of Theseus
Sorites paradox