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Found 5 from your keywords: subject="Paradox"
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Sleight of mind :75 ingenious paradoxes in mathematics, physics, and philosophy
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COOK, Matt

Exploring more than seventy-five well-known paradoxes in mathematics, philosophy, physics, and the social sciences showing how reason and logic can dispel the illusion of contradiction. Paradox is a sophisticated kind of magic trick. A magician's purpose is to create the appearance of impossibility, to pull a rabbit from an empty hat. Yet paradox doesn't require tangibles, like rabbits or hats.…

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1 online resource (368 pages).
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Paradox
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Cuonzo, Margaret,

An introduction to paradoxes showing that they are more than mere puzzles but can prompt new ways of thinking.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

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9781461957829
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The revision theory of truth
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Gupta, Anil,Belnap, Nuel D.,

"A Bradford book."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

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1 online resource (xii, 299 pages) :illustrations
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Sleight of Mind: 75 Ingenious Paradoxes in Mathematics, Physics, and Philosophy
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COOK, Matt

Paradox is a sophisticated kind of magic trick. A magician's purpose is to create the appearance of impossibility, to pull a rabbit from an empty hat. Yet paradox doesn't require tangibles, like rabbits or hats. Paradox works in the abstract, with words and concepts and symbols, to create the illusion of contradiction. There are no contradictions in reality, but there can appear to be. In Sleig…

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Ostranenie : On Shame and Knowing
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Bowker, M.H.

Ostranenie, the term for defamiliarization introduced by Russian writer and critic Victor Shklovsky, means, among other things, to see in strangeness. To see in strangeness is to participate in an illusion that is more real than real. It may be achieved by (re)presenting the surface as the substance, the play as the thing, or by examining (from exigere: to drive out) what is present before oneâ…

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