矛盾 — a philosophical cafe
all paradoxes served hot or cold
"A merchant in the marketplace of Han Fei Tzu sold both an invincible spear and an impenetrable shield. He was asked: what happens when one meets the other? From his silence, the word for contradiction was born."
"The difficulty is to realize the groundlessness of our believing. I know that this is my hand -- but do I? The certainty is not something we arrive at, but something we cannot get below."
"The cup is full. The cup is empty. The cup is both, depending on whether you speak of coffee or of air. Contradiction resides not in things but in the poverty of our descriptions."
"I always lie." Is this a lie?
The arrow never reaches its target, for it must first travel half the distance, then half again...
If you can describe everything outside a set, have you described the set?
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