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Originally Posted by FallingLeaves
it is an aspect of society... everyone wants to come out on top and vanity makes us resist things that would prove otherwise...
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There's different kind of paradoxes; immutable deductive laws, preconditioned or prerequisite paradoxes, frame of reference, and the one you've mentioned, observational paradoxes; Even musical octaves are considered paradoxes, because the frequency doubles but you hear the same note; that's a different kind of paradox deriving from our auditory system being nonlinear and interpreting sound logarithmically. When we explore paradoxes in philosophy we see a different kind of paradox----prime example is idualism and monism being essentially the same yet mutually exclusive, or paradoxes in literary devices such as sarcasm being both witty and disparaging....The source of the first thought is truly an existentialistic and phenomenological inquiry; free-will, personal responsibility, moral obligations and authenticity.