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Mere addition paradox: (Parfit's paradox) Is a large population living a barely tolerable life better than a small, happy population? Moore's paradox : "It's raining, but I don't believe that it is." Newcomb's paradox : A paradoxical game between two players, one of whom can predict the actions of the other.
Also known as the ship of Theseus, this is a classical paradox on the first branch of metaphysics, ontology (philosophy of existence and identity). The paradox runs thus: There used to be the great ship of Theseus which was made out of, say, 100 parts. Each part has a single corresponding replacement part in the ship's port.
Topics about Paradoxes in general should be placed in relevant topic categories. Pages in this category should be moved to subcategories where applicable. This category may require frequent maintenance to avoid becoming too large.
A falsidical paradox establishes a result that appears false and actually is false, due to a fallacy in the demonstration. Therefore, falsidical paradoxes can be classified as fallacious arguments: The various invalid mathematical proofs (e.g., that 1 = 2) are classic examples of this, often relying on a hidden division by zero.
The paradox is not merely apparent, but real, and consists of these two contradictory-but-true statements: Given (1) the number of opportunities for intelligent life, (2) the amount of time that life has had to colonize the galaxy/universe, and (3) the short time period needed for intelligent life to colonize the galaxy once it has achieved ...
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More precisely, the nonidentity problem is the inability to simultaneously hold the following beliefs: (1) a person-affecting view; (2) bringing someone into existence whose life is worth living, albeit flawed, is not "bad for" that person; (3) some acts of bringing someone into existence are wrong even if they are not bad for someone. [2]