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What Is A Paradox?

Vsauce2 - 2018-04-24

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*** SOURCES LINKS AND MORE ***

“The Ways of Paradox and Other Essays” by Willard Van Orman Quine: https://www.amazon.com/Ways-Paradox-Other-Essays-Revised/dp/0674948378/

Zeno of Elea, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/zeno-elea/

Zeno’s Paradoxes, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/paradox-zeno/

Convergent Series, Khan Academy: https://www.khanacademy.org/math/calculus-home/series-calc/seq-conv-diverg-calc/v/convergent-and-divergent-sequences

“Game Show Problem” by Marilyn vos Savant, Parade Magazine, 1990: http://marilynvossavant.com/game-show-problem/

“Solution to the Grandfather Paradox” by minutephysics: https://youtu.be/XayNKY944lY

“The Faint Young Sun Paradox!” by MinuteEarth: https://youtu.be/qbnaes8X4iQ

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Top 10 Archive - 2018-04-26

Shouldn't 3 choices be a trilemma?

Rick Blue Cloud - 2020-02-25

@Ordinary Shiba they seemed to miss the mark on those two words, both of which are familiar enough. But I know there are weird changes in usage with younger folks. I'm 68 years of age and have been a writer for a long time...fairly fluent with English.

Rick Blue Cloud - 2020-02-25

If the decision is an easy one, we simply call it choices or options.

Ordinary Shiba - 2020-02-25

@Rick Blue Cloud Dillemma is the formal way of saying choice or option, that's why you don't say you have a dillemma when you're say picking which clothes to wear in the morning

Rick Blue Cloud - 2020-02-25

@Ordinary Shiba but I've never heard the word used that way. It's always had a more narrow definition than that as far back as I can remember

Ordinary Shiba - 2020-02-25

@Rick Blue Cloud I mean there is no right or wrong definition just better ones so both of our definitions are acceptable

Drew Smith - 2019-05-29

After watching this I'm even more confused about what a paradox is

I'm Still Questionable - 2020-01-12

Mood

MeisterJohnny007 - 2020-02-10

@Samer Ktheya Google/Wikipedia sagt "Antinomie". At least for the word "Antinomy" 🤷‍♂️
I think everything of those has a German word, even if it's nearly identical.

Jackson Clark - 2020-02-26

A paradox is a paradox for infinity

Brockton Corbett - 2020-03-03

Congrats that means you learned something

3C303 - 2019-06-05

"I am lying"
Hi, lying I'm Dad

john bailey - 2020-01-11

Why did you name me this way?
Asdf movie reference!

Windy - 2020-01-12

@john bailey you don't wanna know how many times i've seen "Asdf movie reference" in a comments section

Hashtag No name - 2020-02-03

Hi dad, I'm falsidical

rani054784 - 2020-02-04

thats not funny

Jersson veliz - 2019-05-03

If everything is possible, is it possible for something to be impossible? (Anatinomy)

Persephone Cthulhu - 2020-01-19

@Toast jelly God is real. But none of religions imagine them correctly. In other words:
science holds answer to question: "how" While God is an answer to question "why".

Syan Shih - 2020-02-02

how can it be impossible if impossible doesn't exist..?

ᴄʜᴇʀʀʏʙʟᴏꜱꜱᴏᴍ - 2020-02-05

But if everything is impossible, it wouldn't be possible for the impossible to exist.

The Solar Wolf - 2020-02-19

If it’s possible for something to be impossible, then its impossible for everything to possible.

Peter Lawson - 2020-02-28

If god is omnipotent he can lift any weight. If god is omnipotent, he can design a weight that even he can’t lift.

Paul’s Existence - 2019-11-24

The restaurant owner said “the customer is always right” and then the customer says “no we’re not”

netsquire - 2019-12-19

I’d say that a better example is “This statement is a lie”
Edit: I commented this before watching the entire video and I feel like a genius

Rick Blue Cloud - 2020-01-19

@{ Bruxinth } that statement is often made without much thought. There are always limitations on what a business owner will tolerate from customers. As a taxi driver, I know that sometimes the customer is dead wrong, and needs to get on out.

iluvpikachu - 2020-02-13

just cuz he isnt always right doesnt mean he is always wrong

76 - 2020-02-24

More like
The restaurant owner siad
"The customer is always right
And then the customer says " the restauront is always wrong"

Francisco Hernandez - 2019-05-23

There was a 1/3 chance that one of the tape strips would not peel off completely.

GeeGee - 2019-12-21

Sander wtf.... how do u calculate all that stuff

Hyrum_Graff - 2020-02-09

@Adi R The tape tearing off might not be 50/50. It would depend on the strength of the tape and the strength of the adhesive.

Hyrum_Graff - 2020-02-09

@Adi R Also, it's Antinomy, not Antimony. Google thinks Antinomy isn't a word.

Jerome Cabarus - 2020-03-06

He should hav....e switch

Moldy Hammer - 2019-06-01

“VSAUCE! kevin here.” caught me off guard

sam martinez - 2019-11-03

Moldy Hammer
Same

Squeak_Soul - 2019-05-25

This is the first video I’ve seen of yours and I just was amazed at your white board table lmao

Pierce - 2019-06-13

Watching a video like this always makes me want to own a whiteboard. Then, I remember that all of my math courses are behind me, and I would never ever use it.

ur mum - 2019-11-17

we use these for school lol

I'm Still Questionable - 2020-01-12

Mood

Rizkiaakil - 2020-01-29

@I'm Still Questionable .

sobira ismail - 2019-06-04

Plot twist: the person you assumed was your grandfather was never really your grandfather.

寂筑羽 - 2019-11-13

Timothy Hazelo it says “back woods travel” in my notification and I’m like “wha????” Lmao

I know parallel universes is one explanation, but I don’t know if that’s the “only” one. If that’s proven to be the only possibility I would very much like to read the proof.

sean cairns - 2019-11-24

funny. that's exactly how i found out that i was adopted.

Maurice Dorreboom - 2020-02-24

@寂筑羽 I heard about that hypothesis, like for every descision, the other possibility also exists. Like Hitler did win WO2, Kennedy wasn't shot (or I didn't marry that horrible woman that later would be ex-wife). If you would follow that line of reasoning, how many different universes would there be? All descisions have consequences, good or bad, sometimes good and bad at the same time. For instance because Hitler started WO2 (which was really a bad idea) we (as humans) made leaps in rocket-science (which was good), which directly led into space-race and ultimately into the Lunar Landing and now the Intenational Space Station.

stefan vilic - 2019-02-21

What will happen if Pinocchio says: ``Now my nose will grow``?

MasterBxrdiee - 2020-01-11

stefan vilic in my opinion, if he lied before he said this sentence, his nose would grow, but twice.

Tiffany Pomeroy - 2020-02-01

if someone makes his nose bigger it is the truth

Hashtag No name - 2020-02-03

His voice box explodes before he completes the sentence.

SONIC ART - 2019-08-17

Is this a paradox?


I’m a tall midget

Oscar Lamb - 2020-01-29

Oxymoron

French Soup Guy - 2020-02-16

@Robocart9 what about "giant small"?

Robocart9 - 2020-02-17

@French Soup Guy Within the bounds of english grammar, nothing, since "small" is not a word that defines someone like a name, unlike Giant, which still defines a mythical creature.
But for the sake of the argument, let's say that it fits grammatically. It would be a Giant version of Small, which would appear Giant next to an average Small, but still small or near the same size of an Average Medium.

Owen and Anna - 2020-02-22

That’s an oxymoron

Maurice Dorreboom - 2020-02-24

If you would compare yourself to other midgets and discover you are taller than them, you are a tall midget.

Artistic Stupidity - 2019-07-20

Kevin:You`re odds of winning are just 50/50, right?
Me:Yeah.
Kevin:NO!
Me:what

Adhithya Raja Rajan - 2019-08-24

What kinda paradox is it ??? Or is it a paradox ??
Read below :

The text below is the truth
The text above is a lie .

This doesn't belong to me tho .. This left my mind spinning

cute mess - 2019-09-18

cq33xx I think you might like this; technically, Epimenidies’ original statement is just an argumentative mistake; specifically an A/E vs A/O confusion (look up categorical reasoning if you’re interested).

Take, for example, the statement ‘all sheep are green sheep.’ (A universal positive, or A statement).
You wouldn’t need to prove that no sheep are green to prove me wrong (E; universal negative); you would only need to demonstrate that at least one isn’t (O; particular negative).

Therefore, if all cretins are liars, you would only need to find one cretin who isn’t a liar to prove him wrong. He could still be lying without contradicting his statement—the fact that some cretins are not liars doesn’t mean that all cretins are honest. This also applies to the statement ‘everything I say is a lie,’ (but only when the condition is false) but not OP’s statement, not the statement ‘this statement is false’ which I explored in another thread.

MasterBxrdiee - 2020-01-11

It depends on the writer, if
A. The text below is the truth
B. The text above is a lie

Then 1. If you picked A. as your answer, then the text below is a truth, a Correct answer, and B. Is a False answer, and Vice versa
Or 2. If you leave it as is, its still an untouched paradox.

Snowball Kitty - 2020-02-20

Without even noticing i just typed in almost the same thing!

Oxybe - 2019-05-19

the monte haul is easier to imagine if you put waaaaaay more doors. like 10000.

if the prize is behind one door and the 9999 others have zonks, after choosing your one door the host opens 9998 other doors, all zonks, leaving you with only 2 closed doors containing one zonk and your grand prize.

at this point you can choose between switching or keeping. the chances uou made the right choice before was 1/10000, which is very unlikely. it's much more likely that the winning door is one of the 9999 you didn't choose. now that the host has narrowed down your choices to "the 1/10000 longshot" and "last of the 9999/10000 unchosen doors that likely held the prize" which do you choose?

it's a trick, they both contain the Globgogabalab as he is both a prize and a curse.

I Don’t Know - 2019-10-14

Thanks this finally makes sense now

Zebra Hud - 2019-10-21

This is actually the best explanation I've gotten. Cheers

Josh Levan - 2019-10-24

Wouldn't the choice to keep your original still be a 50/50 choice?

I Don’t Know - 2019-10-24

Josh Levan No. I’m the case of 10,000 doors, your chance of picking the right door the first time is .01%. No matter what we do with the other doors, we aren’t gaining any information about our door. The chance of our specific door being correct doesn’t change; it was a 1/10,000 chance at the beginning of the problem and it still is at the end

Ha Truong - 2018-09-23

10 PM: Im gonna sleep

3 AM: me watching this, questioning the meaning of life

MULTIDEATH - 2019-11-16

Ha Truong 42

Dew Farrell - 2019-11-17

3:03 am while watching this

Jordan Mckenzie - 2019-11-27

Me right now

Ninja HunterX - 2019-12-29

Mine is 2.32 am

TheUltimateMarioFan - 2019-05-27

Who else has been recommended this a year later? I was recommended this last year, watched a bit and then left. Now I'm here again... I would love to see YouTube's algorithm and maths 😂

KnownCaydie :3:p - 2019-06-22

TheUltimateMarioFan same exact thing happened to me

Toby eh - 2019-06-25

I watched maybe a quarter of this quite some time ago now for some reason the all knowing youtube recommend has summoned me back to finish what i started

Ivan Smith - 2019-07-05

It could give you nightmares!

Don Tennant - 2019-09-22

@Toby eh awesome name

UAHA ToxicBoi - 2019-04-27

Teacher : what’s the square root of 5

Student : I don’t know ask vsauce

MULTIDEATH - 2019-11-16

2.5

MrJockeyHD - 2019-11-22

MULTIDEATH 2.25

Hyrum_Graff - 2020-02-09

@MrJockeyHD 2.23606797749978969640917366873127623544061835961152572427089724541052092563780489941441440837878227... OEIS is amazing.

Jako Grobler - 2019-04-25

If God is all-powerful then he should be able to create an object so massive even he cannot move it. But if he cannot move it then he is not all-powerful.

Drety LP - 2019-05-28

@M'hail Right?

Thomas Arkwright - 2019-07-04

Look, the point is, if we have someone who is all-powerful, omnipotent, that means that they are not bound by human logic. They can bend everything to their will. If a person were to witness it happening, their mind will be blown.

Manuel O'Donnell - 2019-07-18

All He need do is create a version of Himself (say, an avatar) who cannot move the object (say, the Earth), and then put that avatar (say, Jesus, maybe?), and put Him on it. Some actually believe that's exactly what He did.

PWL - 2020-01-11

It's a replica not the real one then

Michael Polloway - 2019-11-07

I just realized that the three Vsauces are like the three paradoxes. 3 is like Falsidical, 2 is like Veridical, 1 is like Antinomy

Teen Conservative - 2018-04-25

takes a break from calc homework for YouTube videos

“What we have is a CONVERGENT SERIES”

cries

Matt Heitmann - 2018-04-25

Converges when the absolute value of r is less than 1. Starts at n=0 and converges to a/(1-r).

Now, given an f(x), rewrite that into a geometric series. So (8x-3)/(5x^2-3x+2). This was a question on my exam, I did not get that one right....

Peter Murray - 2018-04-25

THis Is EXACTLY What I just did Dx

Ken Kaneki - 2019-05-06

Oh! Here's a parodox!

"Don't trust an edited comment."

Kevin R. - 2019-09-19

Don't see the problem. After all, an untrustworthy person is still entirely capable of telling you not to trust them.

MULTIDEATH - 2019-11-16

I trust u now

Lance Abarquez - 2019-12-19

That's ironic

Killedragon YT - 2020-01-30

Basicaly:
The "paradox" word is a paradox XD

RY Vlogs - 2019-08-13

If you notice 0 upside down is 0





Strange right

Liam Alistarr - 2019-11-20

Not really

Commenter Five - 2019-11-22

So then what is left?

ab acs - 2020-02-13

@Commenter Five Try to find it: O

HEHEHE I AM A SUPERSTAR WARRIOR - 2019-11-13

Me at 3 am on my phone trying to be quiet
My phone: WHAT IS A PARADOX???

KAD7 - 2018-08-19

The statement below is true.
The statement above is false.

Abhirath Narasimhan - 2019-08-31

Ok that’s it ima fail my exam tomorrow

Veggio ツ - 2020-01-23

i solved it. so if the statement says the statement below says its false then the statement above is the false one and the statement below the true one

Snowball Kitty - 2020-02-20

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaa I just did this not even trying!!!

DustinJJ98 - 2019-06-20

'cause google dictionary was too far away, this 14 minute video 'll do 🤠

T33K3SS3LCH3N - 2019-10-08

Definitions often don't do much on their own, you need to know some context/references to understand them properly.

AyIts UrBoi - 2019-05-07

Dox
Our opinion
*Communism intensifies

Nic Blanchard - 2019-11-10

When you hear the paradox about the sun and early earth and you’re a Christian 😳

Kyle Anderson - 2019-04-22

Me: What's a paradox? Let's watch VSauce!
Kevin: *explains*
Me: *stops at 1:07* Okay, thanks, see ya!

Kyle Cooper - 2018-10-25

Woman: The man is lying.
Man: The woman is telling the truth.

A true Antinomy...

john bailey - 2019-06-29

You didn't specify which woman/man the man/woman was talking about

DustinJJ98 - 2019-06-30

Both could be true or false. The time of when the statements were stated can make all the difference..

Default: the man is telling the truth, cause he aint no woman. 🤣jk
lol, not really 🤣🤣jkjk

Joseph Clegg - 2019-07-24

Both are telling the truth and lying.

Mecca MacCaden - 2020-02-19

She didn't say what it was the man was lying about. And since he was obviously speaking in response to her initial statement then that couldn't have been what she was talking about. This isn't a paradox at all.

Deanith - 2019-10-11

The way he says envelops "triggers" me. 😂😂It doesn't even feel like a word after the video.

Mattia Giacomelli - 2020-01-17

What if Pinocchio says: "My nose is growing"

Arbxx Gaming - 2019-06-01

Good job Vsauce. You just made me question my existence(and also caused me a headache).

Les Lieb - 2019-06-10

Dr. Spock and Dr. Seuss. A pair-o-docs.

Loading - 2018-04-25

Grand prize is the Globglaglabglab, right?

Pickle Picker - 2019-01-01

Loading Ah that globglogabgalab. That schwabbledabbleshwibashwabaflibaflabaflab.

lx Video Stuff - 2019-04-01

sorry, english is not my mother tongue. can you spell that, please?

CollidingVisions - 2019-10-18

ITS GLOBGLOGABGALAB

Somebody Likes Bacon - 2019-10-19

The shwabawabaflibablabablab

The Waterleaf - 2019-07-04

2:49 is always slightly a-head...
get it? cuz it is only the head, on a plastic cilinder?

I'll leave now...

Bon Jovi - 2019-11-10

"What is a paradox?"
Me- Yes and No and Sometimes
Vsauce- ...

Anurag Pandey - 2019-10-14

May be we had different kinda heat energy back then coz of which our earth had liquid water

Nikos Pes - 2019-05-02

2:18 wow thanks for saying my last name

DustinJJ98 - 2019-06-20

can i get that autograph tho?

Johnny Pope - 2018-09-18

If I entered a loser contest, would I win first place, or last place?

Trac Track - 2019-10-22

Johnny Pope middle

Monakaa aaa - 2019-11-13

First place obviously (the definition of winning is to get first place, no matter what the contest is for)

Al - Master - 2019-12-02

Depends if ya lose or win

I am Bored - 2019-05-26

My brain hurts from watching this.

gimy gaming - 2019-11-11

Him: What is a paradox

Me: A PARADOX

Turtle Lover - 2020-01-07

It only a paradox when we couldn't find a way to prove/solve it yet.

Shadow_EX_GamerGod_1206 - 2019-11-24

"I'm lying right now."

TokuTickler - 2018-05-05

The bottom sentence is true.


The top sentence is false.

virgie uy - 2020-02-10

TokuTicker they are both false.

Mole Mant - 2020-02-19

Overused but very confusing

nicejobm8 - 2019-05-21

What if the Earth was warmed by major geothermal energy with it's fast spinning leasfing to it's oceans and not ice?

Project Mayhem - 2019-07-05

leasfing?

Luke Bonney - 2019-07-06

dude can hold his breath took me a while to figure out whether or not that was a still shot. lol

Simone Ibba - 2019-09-02

"Paradox" actually comes from greek παρα and δοξα

TDKaezer - 2020-03-07

Xeno’s paradox can be disproven by asking what speed per hour each is moving.

Daniel Suppes - 2019-06-09

Great explanation, great presentation. You remind me of a young, science-y Alton Brown...without the food.