25 Paradoxes That Defy All Reason

There’s a dilemma which comes from a crocodile attack? Hedonism isn’t as pleasurable as it seems? Here are 25 paradoxes that defy all reason.

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Hedonism isn’t as pleasurable as it seems? And what triangle exists when it really shouldn’t? These questions lie behind some of the most puzzling paradoxes in history. Here are 25 paradoxes that defy all reason

Author: Steve Palace

Chapters:
0:00 - Intro
0:15 - Achilles and the Tortoise Paradox
0:43 - The paradox of free choice
1:09 - Paradox of temperature
1:47 - Bhartrhari’s paradox
2:08 - The Berry paradox
2:40 - Paradox of the court
3:22 - Epimenides paradox
3:48 - Crocodile dilemma paradox
4:19 - The paradox of progress
4:44 - The Stockdale paradox
5:15 - Ironical paradox
5:50 - The Interesting Number Paradox
6:31 - The White Bear paradox
7:15 - Stability-Instability paradox
7:46 - Tritone paradox
8:16 - Paradox of the preface
8:49 - Penrose Triangle paradox
9:16 - Omnipotence paradox
9:49 - Sorites paradox
10:25 - Hedonism paradox
10:49 - Peto’s paradox
11:20 - Enrichment paradox
11:42 - Galileo’s paradox
12:08 - Predestination paradox
12:37 - Lombard’s paradox
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[AllanTidgwell]

"Anything that can go wrong will go wrong" is a misrepresentation of Murphy's Law

The actual statement of Murphy's Law is; "If there are two or more ways to do something and one of those results in a catastrophe, then someone will do it that way."

It's a law about engineering and the ability of people to make wrong choices. Heck, There's a 50/50 chance you'll put a USB in wrong and yet you get it wrong 99% of the time

"Whatever can go wrong, will go wrong" is Sod's Law
And Finagle's Law is similar but more pessimistic "whatever can go wrong, will go wrong, and at the worst possible moment"

[brianarbenz]

Dwight Eisenhower was called the most successful person of the 20th Century. He was supreme commander of the European theater of World War II, so they elected him president. He got us out of the shooting war in Korea and presided over low inflation, full employment and balanced budgets. So, with him on such a great roll, they re-elected him. He had ambitious plans to rein in redundant military spending and congressional pork barreling and he had the people on his side. Then, Sputnik was launched and the U2 plane was downed and all his plans went down the tubes.
This is the success paradox. Being seen as successful gets you promoted until things finally go wrong.

[CrankyCrabChaos]

I got 2 minutes into the video and I'm not watching any more. These kinds of videos can be satisfying, but you're not actually explaining the paradoxes. The run time doesn't need to be short, people will watch longer if the content is explained and more engaging.

[ninomitchell]

Don't forget about the Rick Astley Paradox. If you ask the singer for the Disney/pixar movie up, he won't be able to give it to you, but in the process, he lets you down.

[charlesrainey]

I always used an apple when explaining/demonstrating the white bear paradox not having known the original experiment. Thank you for the enlightenment.

[Forgedaboudid]

Bootstrap paradox. Peter Capaldi on Dr Who explained it really well.

[Spiyder]

Wait, is Achilles walking or is this like a fast tortoise…. That paradox makes no sense

[markofdistinction]

I heard about two doctors that got married. I think thats a pair of docs.

[tomdouge]

A "heap", to me, should be defined as something that is taller than it is wide.

Epicurus said hedonism was accepting whatever is present that's pleasurable and away from whatever is unpleasant that can be avoided, but accepting what can't be avoided (the Stockdale Paradox). Learn to accept the neutral middle ground as pleasant

[dukechristian]

There's the Subscribers Paradox in which it doesn't matter if you ask people to subscribe because their decision to subscribe or not is not based on whether or not they were asked to.

[tenaharney]

excellent choice of background music !

[dennisanderson]

1:09 "freedom to choose" is not a contradiction. No, your choice will not always be the best, correct one for your benefit. But free choice being a paradox is intellectual word salad from folks who believe confusion = education. Perhaps it behooves a person to learn as much as possible about everything [rather than obsessing over "celebs" and pop culture dreck] so as to magnify their opportunities to analyze and choose correctly?

[Demo-critus]

It's easy to prove that there are infinitely many interesting numbers, by way of contradiction. Assume there is a limited number of interesting numbers, with the largest such number being N. Now, this means that N+1 is first of an infinite number of uninteresting numbers, which makes N+1 a very interesting number itself.

[abbysweat]

I would call the indescribable paradox the HP Lovecraft paradox, I quit trying to read him after like three stories because the only way he knows how to describe something is too crazy or too horrifying to describe. You got to give me something howard.

[willcool]

Rationalizing how omniscience and omnipotence are not inherently contradictory to free will is a central theme of most theology and a basic premise to all questions of the humanities and essential to individual identity, conscience, and moral integrity.

[shawnmark]

Another way to view the predestination paradox is your going back in time inadvertently caused the very thing you were trying to prevent. My favorite example of this is the Fairly Odd Parents episode; The Secret Origins of Denzel Crocker.

[KenWalter-vidy]

Love paradox videos. Please do this again but explain them better vs trying to cover 25 of them.

[highhopeshomestead]

You reminded me of the “Trash HEAP” from the kids show Fraggle Rock. :)

[lesmith]

now that you've listed 25 paradoxes, maybe now you can explain them. I'm sure this will satisfy most of the people watching. thank you

[mikenixon]

Good presentation, Mike and team. Did you think of this one? "Dig half a hole."