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	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Paradox
		A paradox (Gk: παράδοξος, "aside belief") is an apparently true statement or group of statements that leads to a contradiction or a situation which defies intuition.
		Paradoxes that arise from apparently intelligible uses of language are often of interest to logicians and philosophers.
		Russell's paradox, which shows that the notion of the set of all those sets that do not contain themselves leads to a contradiction, was instrumental in the development of modern logic and set theory.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Paradox (909 words)

	physics - Paradox
		The word paradox is often used interchangeably with contradiction; but where a contradiction by definition cannot be true, many paradoxes do allow of resolution, though many remain unresolved or only contentiously resolved (such as Curry's paradox).
		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
		Grandfather paradox: You travel back in time and kill your grandfather before he meets your grandmother which precludes your own conception and, therefore, you couldn't go back in time and kill your grandfather.
	www.physicsdaily.com /physics/Paradox (2199 words)

	U.S. Electoral College - Voyager, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		In between those two numbers, the winner unsystematically oscillates back and forth many times -- of the 105 house sizes between those numbers, there is a 269/269 tie 23 times, Bush wins 53 times and Gore wins 29 times.
		The effect is comparable to the Alabama paradox which caused states to actually lose House seats by increasing the House size in certain circumstances, and which led to the introduction of a more mathematically sound method of reapportionment in the late 19th century.
		Detractors claim that the Electoral College assumes that voters within states vote monolithically, when in fact this is not the case.
	www.voyager.in /U.S._Electoral_College (6634 words)

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