These 10 magical paradoxes, how many can you understand with your IQ?

These 10 magical paradoxes, how many can you understand with your IQ?

Our lives are full of paradoxes. We always think that any question will have an answer, but sometimes the problem will be presented in the form of a paradox.

These paradoxes are like circular nodes on our straight avenue leading to truth. If we are not careful, we will fall into these endless loops and never escape. Let us take a look at some of these paradoxes together:

1. Lovers' Paradox (Hedgehog Dilemma)

When two people like each other, each of them is unwilling to show that they like each other because they are afraid of being rejected by the person they like. As a result, they both acted indifferently to each other. The opposite situation is that after both parties experienced rejection and frustration, they both got what they wanted. To sum it up, if human beings want to achieve intimacy, they must experience a certain degree of mutual harm.

2. Who wrote "Romeo and Juliet"

Consider the following situation. A time traveler bought a copy of "Romeo and Juliet", then returned to the past through time travel, and gave it to the young Shakespeare. Shakespeare then copied it down and published it. These things have existed with the development of history until the time traveler, and then they were bought by the traveler and sent back to the past. So the question is: Who actually wrote "Romeo and Juliet"?

3. The unique paradox

There is a song that sings "We are different, everyone...". So if each of us is unique, it means that no one is unique.

4. The tolerance paradox

If society’s tolerance is unlimited, that is, tolerate those who cannot tolerate it, then social tolerance will eventually decline or even be destroyed. Therefore, in order to maintain the tolerance of society, society must sometimes not tolerate things that cannot be tolerated.

5. The sentence paradox

"There are two mistakes in this sentence." Do you see the paradox in this sentence? Tip: The second error is that there is only one error in this sentence ("Khan" should be "Han").

6. The Thrift Paradox

This is a phenomenon in economics. Of course, it is extremely scary to think carefully. This paradox is also practical in many parts of our lives. This paradox is that when people are afraid that the Great Depression will come, they start to reduce their consumption to increase their storage, hoping to fight the risk in this way, but it is everyone who did this that eventually triggered the Great Depression.

7. The customer paradox

The boss told the clerk: The customer is God, no matter what the customer says they are all right. When a customer heard him say this, he said directly, "Aren't they all right."

8. The graduate paradox

It’s time to look for a job after graduating from college, but everyone often faces a very famous paradox: "You need work experience to get a job, but you need a job to get work experience." This paradox is a problem faced by thousands of graduates every year.

9. Heap Paradox (Sophistry Paradox/Chain Reasoning Paradox)

We all take it for granted that if we reason step by step, things will always come to light. It's as if we are facing a pile of sand, we move the sand grain by grain, we all know that a pile of sand removes a grain of sand, and what remains is a pile of sand. So the question is, when we move to the last grain of sand, is a grain of sand still a pile of sand? If not, when did the remaining sand cease to be a pile of sand?

10. The omnipotent paradox

Is God Almighty? A simple paradox can prove that there is no omnipotent God. Because if the omnipotent God exists, then "can he make a stone that he can't lift up?" If he can't make such a stone, then he is not omnipotent, if he makes it, then it exists If he can't lift a stone, then it shows that he is not omnipotent.