Why Paradoxes are important
Humans have sort of accepted and decided that everything can be explained somehow, which gives us both the ability to continue our thirst and quest for knowledge, as well as hope to understand some big questions in the universe such as "What is the meaning of life?" and "Is there a god?" Now the study of questions like this is called philosophy, and people dedicate their lives to solving them, because they believe there is an answer. But what if their isn't an answer? What if there is no line between interpretive and factual questions, so that anything can become interpretive or factual if talked about in a certain way. This seems impossible, that some seemingly very obvious questions are very much interpretive and are just shrouded in the shallow layer of humanity's inability to believe that some questions don't have definitive answers. What if there is, but isn't a god, or there is but isn't a meaning to life. What if the only thing that was nothing is nothing itself. Hard to think about right? Well that's were paradoxes come in. Paradoxes are statement that apparently contradicts itself and yet might be true. People "solve" paradoxes by thinking about them in a way that is not constricted by the thought that there is a correct solution. Solving a paradox is creating a paradox, because someone who recognizes that a paradox exists, is someone who finds the solution by saying that no solution is the solution. The moment that someone "solves" a paradox it is no longer a paradox because paradoxes must not be solved.
Paradoxes allow us to continue expanding our understandings outside of what we feel comfortable with. If we learn to accept that somethings are "insolvable" we can approach them at a new level, which allows us to try to understand them. This website holds some of the most mindboggling paradoxes that there are, as well as brain teasers, in which there s a correct solution but not nessisarily to be solved by linear thinking.
Humans have sort of accepted and decided that everything can be explained somehow, which gives us both the ability to continue our thirst and quest for knowledge, as well as hope to understand some big questions in the universe such as "What is the meaning of life?" and "Is there a god?" Now the study of questions like this is called philosophy, and people dedicate their lives to solving them, because they believe there is an answer. But what if their isn't an answer? What if there is no line between interpretive and factual questions, so that anything can become interpretive or factual if talked about in a certain way. This seems impossible, that some seemingly very obvious questions are very much interpretive and are just shrouded in the shallow layer of humanity's inability to believe that some questions don't have definitive answers. What if there is, but isn't a god, or there is but isn't a meaning to life. What if the only thing that was nothing is nothing itself. Hard to think about right? Well that's were paradoxes come in. Paradoxes are statement that apparently contradicts itself and yet might be true. People "solve" paradoxes by thinking about them in a way that is not constricted by the thought that there is a correct solution. Solving a paradox is creating a paradox, because someone who recognizes that a paradox exists, is someone who finds the solution by saying that no solution is the solution. The moment that someone "solves" a paradox it is no longer a paradox because paradoxes must not be solved.
Paradoxes allow us to continue expanding our understandings outside of what we feel comfortable with. If we learn to accept that somethings are "insolvable" we can approach them at a new level, which allows us to try to understand them. This website holds some of the most mindboggling paradoxes that there are, as well as brain teasers, in which there s a correct solution but not nessisarily to be solved by linear thinking.