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Post your favorite paradoxes

Let's get this one out of the way.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schr%C3%B6dinger%27s_cat

>> No.2888171

the post below this is false

>> No.2888173

the post above this is true

>> No.2888174

The post above this is true.

>> No.2888178

>>2888173
Well shit...

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>>2888174
damn it feels good to be a gangsta =p

>> No.2888180

>>2888171
Don't you have anything better to do than troll /sci/?

>> No.2888183

>>2888180
how is that a troll...?

>> No.2888184

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_paradox

>> No.2888185

Rape me.

>> No.2888197
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2888197

Not really a paradox, just a counter-intuitive statistical problem.

>> No.2888199

>>2888185
wat?

...me?

>> No.2888205

>>2888199
if you ask someone to rape you, you obviously want them to have sex with you

>> No.2888206

All the posters in this thread are placed in a black chamber. Lethal amounts of carbon monoxide are pumped into the chamber but it is never opened.

Are the posters dead or alive?

>> No.2888208

>>2888199
yeh but there was no postlink.

and also, rape implies lack of consent.

>> No.2888211

>>2888206
They are dead.

>> No.2888212

>>2888206
>>2888206
either way humanity wins!

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>>2888212
>mfw you are in this thread

>> No.2888236

"Is false when preceded by its quotation" is false when preceded by its quotation.

>> No.2888244

>>2888236
Oh shit.

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2888251

>people trying to school the "rape me" guy

>> No.2888942

>>2888169
how about some non-semantic paradoxes?

Schroedinger's cat is a good one.
it's usually dismissed by the notion that observation of the particle requires some interaction with it, thereby causing the wavefunction collapse.

Goedel's incompleteness theorem:
can't prove nothin bitches

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>> No.2889430

The next statement is true. The previous statement was false.