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Three types of paradoxes

The Ways of Paradox and Other Essays

by W.V. Quine

There are essentially three categories of paradoxes

  • Falsidical – Logic based on a falsehood
  • Veridical – Truthful
  • Antinomy – A contradiction, real or apparent, between two principles or conclusions, both of which seem equally justified

Willard Van Orman Quine (AKA W. V. O. Quine, or “Van”to his friends) (1908 – 2000) was an American philosopher and mathematical logician, widely considered one of the most important philosophers of the second half of the 20th Century.

Three types of paradoxes

2 thoughts on “Three types of paradoxes

  1. ‘This statement is false’ – i would call verbal, purly linguistic paradoxe. it comes from oure ability of putting words together. You can say any ammount of verbal paradoxes, like “there is a unicorn with three hornes”

  2. ‘This statement is false’ is a purely verbal, lingustic paradoxe.

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