Author

Publication

2001-09-11 - Duckworth Publishers

Language

English

Word Count

24,000 words, Guess

Page Count

96 pages

Physical Format

Paperback

Identifiers

and 3 more
  • Library of Congress Control Number95133085
  • LibraryThing1451901
  • Goodreads1979924

Classifications

  • LCCBC199.P2L45 1993

Description

"Paradoxes are many things. Artificial intelligence views them as viruses of the brain, strange replicators that unexpectedly exploit design possibilities. For the child, they are intellectual cartwheels, an everyday delight. For mathematicians and logicians, they reveal skeletons in the closet of reason. For philosophers and dramatists, they capture the contradictions of experience. The historian of ideas sees that they come in successive waves, surging through Classical Greece, the Renaissance and the twentieth century. Professor Leiber's user-'friendly guide to paradoxes provides an up-to-date survey of an ancient and perennial source of puzzlement. Book jacket."--BOOK JACKET.

First Sentence

Paradoxically, perhaps the most available and economical, and reliable, path to immortality is this: invent a paradox.

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