The hypocritical "paradox" is the humorous joke of a person who involves contradiction in himself while making his statement of hypocrisy. This article discusses humour in terms of comedy and laughter. ... Broadly speaking, a contradiction is when two or more statements, ideas, or actions are seen as incompatible. ...
It goes as : "I hate hypocrites, but one thing I hate even more is intolerant hypocrites."
A hypocrite is a person who says one thing and does another, in other words, inconsistent. A person who hates, is by definition intolerant. Anybody who claims to hate some kind of people while revealing himself as the very same himself is hypocritical, which would seem to be a paradox. Hypocrisy is the act of pretending to have beliefs, virtues and feelings that one does not truly possess. ... Consistency has three technical meanings: In mathematics and logic, as well as in theoretical physics, it refers to the proposition that a formal theory or a physical theory contains no contradictions. ... Tolerance is a social, cultural and religious term applied to the collective and individual practice of not persecuting those who may believe, behave or act in ways of which one may not approve. ... Hypocrisy is the act of pretending to have beliefs, virtues and feelings that one does not truly possess. ... Robert Boyles self-flowing flask fills itself in this diagram, but perpetual motion machines do not exist. ...
(Of course, this isn't a true paradox, because if you assume the statement to be true, it doesn't prove that the statement is false--only that the speaker hates himself.)
A paradox is an apparently true statement or group of statements that seems to lead to a contradiction or to a situation that defies intuition, such as "This statement is false".
Paradoxes which are not based on a hidden error generally happen at the fringes of context or language, and require extending the context (or language) to lose their paradox quality.
Supplee's paradox: the buoyancy of a relativistic object (such as a bullet) appears to change when the reference frame is changed from one in which the bullet is at rest to one in which the fluid is at rest
A paradox is an apparently true statement or group of statements that seems to lead to a contradiction or to a situation that defies intuition.
Given the human brain can describe a paradox it must be able to contain it, and the state where any given paradox ceases to display its inherent conflicting characteristics is decribed as a Locudox.
Ellsberg paradox: A paradoxical result in experimental decision theory.
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