What is a good example of a paradox?

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The time-traveling grandma-killer.

Suppose you build a time machine, go back in time to find your grandmother when she was three years old, and then drown her in the bathtub.

So she never grows up, and never has any kids.

Therefore, one of your parents was never born.

Therefore, YOU were never born.

Therefore, you never traveled back in time and killed your infant grandma.

So she DID grow up and have kids.

Therefore, your parent WAS born.

Therefore, YOU were born.

Therefore, you traveled back in time and killed your infant grandma.

Ad infinitum.

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Paradox - "A statement that seems contradictory or absurd but, is actually valid or true." It can also be construed as, for instance, 'a conspiracy theory', but later it is deemed true. EXAMPLE: "I know that I know nothing." This is a paradox.

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