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Paradoxes

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Situations that seems to defy intuition

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Introduction: List of paradoxes
Decision theory: Abilene paradox; Apportionment paradox; Arrow's impossibility theorem; Buridan's ass; Chainstore paradox; Decision-making paradox; Exchange paradox; Fenno's paradox; Fredkin's paradox; Green paradox; Hedgehog's dilemma; Inventor's paradox; Kavka's toxin puzzle; Morton's fork; Navigation paradox; Newcomb's paradox; Paradox of tolerance; Paradox of voting; Parrondo's paradox; Prevention paradox; Prisoner's dilemma; Voting paradox; Willpower paradox
Economy: Allais paradox; Angus Deaton; Arrow information paradox; Bertrand paradox; Braess' paradox; Demographic-economic paradox; Dollar auction; Downs–Thomson paradox; Easterlin paradox; Ellsberg paradox; European paradox; Gibson's paradox; Giffen good; Icarus paradox; Jevons paradox; Leontief paradox; Lucas paradox; Mandeville's paradox; Mayfield's paradox; Metzler paradox; Paradox of prosperity; Paradox of thrift; Paradox of toil; Paradox of value; Productivity paradox; Resource curse; Scitovsky paradox; Service recovery paradox; St. Petersburg paradox; The Antitrust Paradox; Tullock paradox
Logic: All horses are the same color; Barbershop 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: Cramer's paradox; Elevator paradox; Gambler's fallacy; Gödel's incompleteness theorems; Interesting number paradox; Kleene–Rosser paradox; Low birth weight paradox; Paradoxes of set theory; Von Neumann paradox
Miscellaneous: Ant on a rubber rope; Buttered cat paradox; Lombard's Paradox; Observer's paradox
Philosophy: Argument from free will; Fitch's paradox of knowability; Liberal paradox; Meno; Mere addition paradox; Moore's paradox; Movement paradox; Omnipotence paradox; Paradox of analysis; Paradox of fiction; Paradox of hedonism; Paradox of nihilism; Pareto efficiency; Predestination paradox; Preface paradox; Problem of evil; Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language; When a white horse is not a horse
Physics: Archimedes paradox; Braess's paradox; Cool tropics paradox; Irresistible force paradox; Ontological paradox; Physical 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: Absence paradox; Bonini's paradox; Ship of Theseus
Statistics: Abelson's paradox; Accuracy paradox; Benford's law; Berkson's paradox; Freedman's paradox; Friendship paradox; Lindley's paradox; Low birth-weight paradox; Renewal theory; Simpson's paradox; Will Rogers phenomenon
Probability: Bertrand paradox; Bertrand's box paradox; Birthday problem; Borel–Kolmogorov paradox; Boy or Girl paradox; False positive paradox; Paul Grice; Monty Hall problem; Necktie paradox; Proebsting's paradox; Sleeping Beauty problem; Three Prisoners problem; Two envelopes problem
Infinity and infinitesimals: Burali-Forti paradox; Cantor's paradox; Galileo's paradox; Russell's paradox; Hilbert's paradox of the Grand Hotel; Skolem's paradox; Zeno's paradoxes; Supertask; Ross–Littlewood paradox; Thomson's lamp
Geometry and topology: Banach–Tarski paradox; Paradoxical set; Coastline paradox; Coin rotation paradox; Gabriel's Horn; Klein bottle; Hausdorff paradox; Missing square puzzle; Nikodym set
Astrophysics: Algol paradox; Faint young Sun paradox; Greisen–Zatsepin–Kuzmin limit; Galactic Center
Classical Mechanics: Archer's paradox; Vertical pressure variation; Aristotle's wheel paradox; Carroll's paradox; D'Alembert's paradox; Denny's paradox; Elevator paradox (physics); Feynman sprinkler; Painlevé paradox; Tea leaf paradox; Upstream contamination
Cosmology: Bentley's paradox; Boltzmann brain; Fermi paradox; Heat death paradox; Olbers' paradox
Quantum Mechanics: Aharonov–Bohm effect; Bell's theorem; Double-slit experiment; EPR paradox; Extinction paradox; Hardy's paradox; Klein paradox; Mott problem; Quantum LC circuit; Quantum pseudo-telepathy; Quantum Zeno effect; Schrödinger's cat
Relativity: Bell's spaceship paradox; Black hole information paradox; Ehrenfest paradox; Ladder paradox; Velocity-addition formula; Supplee's paradox
Thermodynamics: Gibbs paradox; Loschmidt's paradox; Maxwell's demon; Mpemba effect
Biology: High-Nutrient, low-chlorophyll; C-value; Semelparity and iteroparity; Gray's paradox; Lek mating; Lombard's paradox; Paradox of enrichment; Paradox of the pesticides; Paradox of the plankton; Sherman paradox; Temporal paradox (paleontology)
Health and Nutrition: French paradox; Glucose paradox; Hispanic paradox; Israeli paradox; Mexican paradox; Obesity paradox; Peto's paradox; Pulsus paradoxus
Chemistry: Faraday paradox (electrochemistry); Levinthal's paradox; Quantitative structure–activity relationship
Time: Joseph Polchinski; Causal loop; Temporal paradox; Grandfather paradox
Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence: Bracketing paradox; Code-talker paradox; Moravec's paradox; Sayre's paradox; Buridan's bridge; New riddle of induction; Dream argument
Mysticism: Tzimtzum
Perception: Tritone paradox; Shepard tone; Paul Graham (computer programmer); Optical illusion
Politics: Stability–instability paradox
Psychology and Sociology: Gender paradox; Paradox; Outcomes paradox; Status paradox; The Paradox of Anti-Semitism; Region-beta paradox; Self-absorption paradox; Stapp's ironical paradox; James Stockdale; Ironic process theory
Supplementary Notes: 0.999...; Auto-antonym; Absurdity; Excusable negligence; Ignore all rules; Informal fallacy; Mathematical fallacy; Paradox gun; Paradoxical laughter; Performative contradiction; Puzzle; Ridiculous; Theories of humor

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