Enhance your vocabulary with our Word of the Day series. In this series, we introduce a new word every day and explore its ...

Russell claims in his autobiography and elsewhere that he discovered his 1905 theory of descriptions while attempting to solve the logical and semantic paradoxes plaguing his work on the foundations ...

Consider the paradox of the end: we set ourselves a goal and make great efforts to achieve it. Doing so is often strenuous, but gives life direction, purpose and meaning. We see the goal as valuable, ...

Logic doesn’t always work the way we think it should. Take Hempel’s Paradox. Say you want to examine the hypothesis that “all ravens are black.” If you were to find a nonblack raven sitting outside ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Every technology introduces paradoxes. But AI seems to have more than its share — it giveth, it taketh away — all at once. Of ...

A WOMAN once approached me with a curious problem concerning her husband. Like most people who choose to get married, she had promised to love her spouse to the exclusion of all others. But there was ...