Paradoxes don’t “exist” in the real world. Reality isn’t paradoxical. Paradoxes are what we call problems we haven’t found answers for yet. They point to unsolved questions, false correlations, and wrong premises - precisely because nothing in the real world can actually be paradoxical.
Exactly - apparent paradoxes. There’s a lot of theoretical work attempting to solve it. The paradox isn’t the end point of what we assume to be the truth, it’s our way of describing a unsolved problem hinting to the fact that there’s something we don’t understand just yet.
To Copernicus what he learned about the geocentric world and what he observed in his astronomical research was a paradox. It didn’t make sense, so he started to question the premise. Learning more about the nature of things eliminated the apparent paradox. Today we know better.
The Epicurean paradox has a very obvious solution as well. The premise of an all knowing, all powerful, and all-loving god is wrong. A god of this nature doesn’t exist. The people who came up with the idea were wrong. Simple as that. As soon as we accept that, the paradox is resolved. Because it was a problem of thought - an error - not a problem of reality.
Paradoxes don’t “exist” in the real world. Reality isn’t paradoxical. Paradoxes are what we call problems we haven’t found answers for yet. They point to unsolved questions, false correlations, and wrong premises - precisely because nothing in the real world can actually be paradoxical.
We know of apparent paradoxes, like the conflict between quantum gravity and relativistic gravity
Exactly - apparent paradoxes. There’s a lot of theoretical work attempting to solve it. The paradox isn’t the end point of what we assume to be the truth, it’s our way of describing a unsolved problem hinting to the fact that there’s something we don’t understand just yet.
To Copernicus what he learned about the geocentric world and what he observed in his astronomical research was a paradox. It didn’t make sense, so he started to question the premise. Learning more about the nature of things eliminated the apparent paradox. Today we know better.
The Epicurean paradox has a very obvious solution as well. The premise of an all knowing, all powerful, and all-loving god is wrong. A god of this nature doesn’t exist. The people who came up with the idea were wrong. Simple as that. As soon as we accept that, the paradox is resolved. Because it was a problem of thought - an error - not a problem of reality.