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Liar's Paradox Analysis
I knew that a paradox was a contradiction but I had never gone into the depth of what all in considered to be a paradox. A paradox is " a statement or situation that may be true but seems impossible or difficult to understand because it contains two opposite facts or characteristics " , with that said many things are paradoxes. This video talked about multiple types of paradoxes the two I found interesting were the Russell's and the Liar's paradoxes. Russell's paradox is a paradox where either way it said is still a contradiction. The Liar's paradox is a sentence that is both true and false at the same time.

The paradox that I found interesting was the "beauty Paradox" where the subject is vanity verse feminism. The baby-bummer generation

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