paradoxes

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Recognizing the categorical difference between occurrence and existence resolves these paradoxes.

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

Fast fashion — items that move from concept to storefront availability in a matter of weeks — is one of the great paradoxes in retail, especially among younger consumers.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 12, 2024

Perhaps tomorrow someone will invent a theory consistent with everything else we know that circumvents paradoxes on such matters as simultaneity, avoids privileged reference frames and still permits travel faster than light.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan