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barbershop paradox #3

Open grenade opened 10 years ago

grenade commented 10 years ago

The supposition that if one of two simultaneous assumptions leads to a contradiction, the other assumption is also disproved leads to paradoxical consequences.

michaelhodgins commented 10 years ago

@grenade, could you provide a concrete example?

necenzurat commented 10 years ago

@michaelhodgins https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbershop_paradox

michaelhodgins commented 10 years ago

@necenzurat I was hoping for a concrete example, rather that a definition.

necenzurat commented 10 years ago

it's there

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michaelhodgins commented 10 years ago

The page has a nice discussion about how the Barbershop paradox is flawed and is in fact a logical error, but I didn't see an example of it applied to time travel.