paradox is a statement that contradicts itself. Isnt it strange? It is quite difficult to understand it. Literature is always been so complex for me. Or may be I am so much complex to understand all this terminology. could you produce such statement that conflicts with itself? you might be thinking its too difficult. If one dont understand even meaning, how can one make such statements so easily? well, many of you had used such statements in their routine life.
e.g.: "I always lie" is a paradox because if it is true it must be false. Isnt it cool?
I found this term in while reading on Socrates. I was searching for followers sequence among Socrates, Aristotle, Plato & Alexander. and got the sequence. First came Socrates => Plato => Aristotle => Alexander the great.
Socratic Paradoxes
Many of the beliefs traditionally attributed to the historical Socrates have been characterized as "paradoxal" because they seem to conflict with common sense. The following are among the so-called Socratic Paradoxes:
- No one desires evil.
- No one errs or does wrong willingly/knowingly.
- Virtue - all virtue - is knowledge.
- Virtue is sufficient for happiness.
- I know that I know nothing.
Reference : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socrates. Wikipedia is always good stuff to read.
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