paradoxes

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Time-travel paradoxes rest on the false premise that events exist as revisitable locations.

From Science Daily • Nov. 2, 2025

The scientific consensus that the mind consists of intricate activity in an unfathomably complex brain, which, like all organs, is vulnerable to disease and decay, suffers from none of these paradoxes.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 29, 2025

Leo highlighted the "outrageous paradoxes" by which enormous amounts of food go wasted in the world "while multitudes of people scramble to find something in the garbage to put in their mouths".

From Barron's • Oct. 16, 2025

But I definitely find that there is beauty in human relationships or in personal relationships, in relationships with your personal, universal, cosmic or internal ecosystem, with paradoxes, with what is opposed.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 28, 2025

Physicists were forced to confront astonishing paradoxes roiling their conception of the natural world.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik