When it comes to development, there's two main things, Discoveries and Inventions. When you break down what an invention is, it's a mix of multiple little discoveries put into better use. For example, a hammer is an invention. But the materials used (wood and iron) are discoveries. They existed long before inventions were made. We just put them together and made something. So thinking along those lines, inventions do not exist. Look around wherever you are right now. Anything man-made you see is an invention (aka. mix of discoveries). So do inventions actually exist or are they all just a mix of discoveries?

PS: this might not really be a paradox but it's something to think about.

if there's a wall that blocks 30% of water that pass through it, could an human pass through it since its body is made by a 70% percent water? or maybe just the water part would pass? or maybe even just 70% of the water part? (I'm not sure it's a paradox but I didn't know where to post it)

Say you have a fictional material that is completely impenetrable to all methods provided by physics. So dense that light, sound, particles, radio waves, even neutrinos and gravity cannot penetrate it. Now say you are to build a room out of this material. you are inside this room. Once you seal yourself inside the box, does anything exist outside of it, and if so how could you prove it? Does the outside universe cease to exist?

if an ambulance driver hits person A and takes person A to the hospital in the same ambulance, will the driver get fined or will he get a raise?

There was an apple placed into a box which was then sealed by god to never open it was impossible, in that box over time the apple would decay. eventually over time that apple would of done everything which would also include coming out the box which was bound to never happen by the rule make of the universe.

I saw a reel on Instagram saying " You are in a competition of being the kindest guy but your opponent doesn't appear". To simplify, this mean the guy who didn't appeared is kind and want his opponent to win but the winner of being the kindest guy now is who appeared in the competition.

In the comment section of this reel someone mentioned it's a paradox and a war started there between people who think it's a paradox and people who think it's not. What do you guys think?

I thought of this randomly(pun intended) a while ago.

Imagine you have a random number generator(RNG) that can generate ANY whole number. That would include 0,1,2,3,... on forever. Also assume the chance of getting any given number is equal

If something like this existed, it would never be able to generate a number. This is because, for any given number x, there will always be infinite numbers greater than x, therefore the chances of getting a number larger than x would be infinitely more. And this applies for all possible values values x.

Another way to look at this is that since the chance of any number being given out by the RNG is equal and that there are infinite possibilities, the chance of any particular number appearing would be 1/infinity.

Mathematically, we could solve this by taking the limit of 1/x, as x –> infinity, and that gives us the answer as 0. Which would mean the chances of any number being generated by the RNG is 0.

As I write, I realise it's not really a paradox... I thought it was kinda interesting and felt I needed to post this somewhere. Plus, I also think something like this likely already exists. Maybe my brain is plagiarising it's own memories?

In context, if the son has a child, it’s her grandchild but if she has a child it’s his sister. Therefore, it’s both her daughter and her granddaughter, but it can only be one.

Premise - time is infinite.

-our universe has a starting point along an infinite scale. We call that point 0.

-our universe’s life span = X. Where X is = to all actions possible until 0 is replicated. From 0, X happens again.

X being defined and ordered.

This means if you stand in front of a mirror and have a mirror behind you, you can replicate time travel Forwards AND backwards.

All instances of you, in all X’s are acting in perfect synchronization.

Like a Mirror.

The Time Machine exists in 1 point in time, always at the same location and time. When you are stepping into it in any direction, all instances of you in all X’s are also doing so. Each particle of you only ever exists in 1 universe, whether it be a past or future universe.

As if you were moving inside of mirrors.

Any action to delay or break the synchronicity is mirrored or else the life span of our universe can’t = X and isn’t ordered. It is self correcting at all times.

Infinity should behave like two mirrors facing each other, if it is fractured.

Every fraction of X = X.

X = X/X= X/2 = X/3 = X/4 …. And so on.

If there is deviation such as X does not equal X/Y. Then all of X has not been fractured evenly.

Infinity divided by any amount remains the same infinity. It must have the same infinity in every fraction, if not, it is no longer the same infinity, if X/Y does not equal X. Then XxY does not equal to X.

The opposite is also true, Infinity x Y= infinity

The cruel caveat, every instance believes they’re the one standing in front of their two mirrors. There is no discernible start

Had this idea on a flight and wanted some thoughts on it.

Let's say you have a locked smartphone and a time machine. As with most smartphones, it requires a pass code to unlock, and after too many failed attempts to unlock it (i.e. wrong pass codes entered) it is disabled for time period X, which increases by some amount Y every time an incorrect code is entered. You send it back in time (to yourself) an amount of time equal to X+Y after trying and failing a combination, noting the combinations you've already tried on a post it note.

Does this create a paradox? And if so, what is the name for it?

If time is infinite, time travel is impossible.

The longer amount of time there is, proportionally reduces the amount of time, time travel is possible in the universe.

Additionally, On an infinite scale, the Inventor only needs to get affected by 1 time traveller for the secret to be lost in time forever. Having existed but never able to exist in a determined time.

An infinite scale has no precise point as it has no start and no end.

Even if time travel were to exist, or had existed for aeons, that is but an undefinable blip to infinity.

The Paradox of the Exceptional Fountain Pen

Imagine there is a magical fountain pen, the "Exceptional Fountain Pen," which is said to make everything written with it untrue. People claim it's the pen with which you can never write the truth, as anything you write with it automatically becomes false.

Someone decides to test the pen and writes the sentence: "Everything written with this pen is untrue."

What if in the far, far future, Humans discover how to travel in time backwards. Eventually they realize that they themselves are the start of Humanity, what i mean by this is what if Humans from the future went back in time and "planted" amino acids into Earth's seas, knowing it will kick start evolution, they return to the future and life develops in Earth V-2. soon the Humans from Earth V-2 end up in the position of the humans from Earth V-1 and end up going back in time and "planting" amino acids into Earth V-3's seas eventually making Earth V-3's Humans. and forever and ever

Don't believe me? Take look at juxtapositions of morally around you for a while then come back later to tell me otherwise. Because as far as I'm concerned it's a real paradox that can't be ignored. There's seems to be a stability or compatibility problem of tolerance when it com down to conflicting different standards.

If it were a machine that could predict the future, it would first predict that it will predict the future. But before that, it has to predict that it is going to predict that it is predicting the future, and so on, continuing like this to infinity without ever actually predicting the future.

If you sell them to him you are encouraging underage intercourse but if you don’t sell them to him, you are encouraging underage un-protected sex.

He's says 'my nose is about to grow'

SawStop has pledged to release a key safety patent if a proposed regulation requires injury mitigation technology on all table saws. This decision reveals a profound paradox in our patent-driven, capitalistic system:

1. Patent Protections Aim to Promote Innovation for Public Safety: By rewarding companies like SawStop for developing life-saving technologies with exclusive rights, the system encourages safety advancements. However, these protections also create barriers that limit the widespread availability of those innovations, thereby restricting access to public safety.
2. Releasing the Patent Expands Access to Safety Technology: Making the technology publicly available could help achieve broader public safety by enabling more manufacturers to adopt it. Yet, this reduces the financial incentives for companies to invest in further safety innovations, potentially slowing progress toward future advancements.

The paradox lies in the fact that a system designed to achieve public safety through patent protections ends up undermining its own goal. By simultaneously encouraging innovation and restricting access, it creates an inherent contradiction: achieving maximum public safety within this framework is paradoxically prevented by the very mechanisms intended to ensure it.

You can read more about SawStop's announcement here.

You know the “I am lying’ statement paradox? I solved it! It is true that it is false and true, therefore it is true, and he is lying!

I stress that I think it's a soft paradox, in that the answer isn't what one might expect. It's not (as far as I can tell) self-referential.

https://neophilosophical.blogspot.com/2024/10/magic-paving-stones.html

As it's also a bit of a puzzle, I won't go into why it might be a (soft) paradox.

Update: I believe that u/crescentpieris answered correctly, so I can go into why I think it is a paradox. The long explanation is here - https://neophilosophical.blogspot.com/2024/10/why-magic-paving-stones-puzzle-is.html - but I will put a brief explanation into comments below (editing my first comment to do so).

If there is more different than the same, is the same different?

The Paradox of the Self-Defeating Promise: Imagine a person who makes a promise to always tell the truth. One day, they decide to promise to tell a lie the next time someone asks them a question.

If they fulfill their promise to lie, they are breaking their original promise to always tell the truth. But if they don’t lie and instead tell the truth, they are breaking their promise to lie.

This creates a paradox: they cannot simultaneously keep both promises, and fulfilling one leads to the violation of the other. Which promise should they honor?

The multiverse hypothesis cannot theoretically exist because it is inevitable that an intelligent form of life in one of the timelines/universes would eventually understand the fabric of the multiverse and destroy it entirely leading to the end of all things. Who knows, maybe it has already happened and consciousness exists in the remnants of an ancient timeline or within a singularity. In the infinite, if a Boltzmann brain can exist, a multiverse destroying civilization can exist. I hope it’s not humans, although we do seem to destroy everything..

I came up with this on my own (not special) and I've been calling it the Bus Paradox but have used it to explain a lot of situations. Goes like this.

A place has local transportation, like where I live, and the buses run once an hour. Since this is an unreliable form of transportation, very few people utilize the bus system and since no one is really riding the bus, the local government doesn't add more buses to make them run more frequently.

Someone has to break the cycle. I know it's an example of a positive feedback loop but is there a name for specific kinds of positive feedback loops like I've deemed this one?

What happens if an unstoppable force meets a decently movable object??

A logical person doesn't try to be logical all the time.

CW: Politics (Kinda)

The All Are Paradox is a paradox about the fact that every single member of a specific demographic cannot be any one thing. The most known example of this is "All black people are gang members/criminals". All black people cannot be criminals, because even if 99.99% of black people globally, are criminals, that 0.01% means that all black people are NOT criminals. And you can't debunk it by saying "Oh but it's MOST of them". The statement is still false regardless.

This one might be easily debunkable, I don't think so but feel free to speculate.