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	List of paradoxes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Drinker paradox: In any non-empty pub, there is a customer such that, if he or she drinks, everybody in the pub drinks.
		Sleeping Beauty problem: A probability problem that can be correctly answered as one half or one third depending on how the question is approached.
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_paradoxes (2288 words)

	Beauty Treatment:
		However, this appreciation of the beauty of an analysis is different from the beauty of empathy or of a good interpretation, and these latter elements are indeed sought or even craved by patients.
		It is the movement from chaos to order, from ugliness to beauty, from the paranoid-schizoid part object to the depressive whole object, from the death instinct to life, that explain the appeal of the aesthetic object.
		There is beauty in the violence of a volcano’s eruption as long as one observes it from a position of safety; being able to keep the "as-if" quality present even during the intensity of the moment, when it is all too real to the patient, allows the analyst this safety of distance.
	serendip.brynmawr.edu /local/scisoc/beauty/levinedoc.html (8655 words)

	Beauty and the Beast
		The central paradox of Christianity is that although it’s staunchly patriarchal, it is nonetheless an intrinsically feminine creed.
		Beauty, in contrast, remains pure, and is the true servant of her father.
		So when Beauty gazes into it to see her dying father, this seems to confirm our hypothesis that Beauty could well be emblematic of Christ, and this scene would then be suggestive of the symbiotic union between Christ and God the Father.
	www.thevesselofgod.com /beautybeast.html (777 words)

	Sleeping Beauty
		A volunteer was recruited from the philosophy department of a nearby University.
		BUT, on Monday evening she would be given an amnestic, putting her to sleep and totally clearing her memory of the previous 24 hours.
		(This clever paradox is based on one that appeared in the rec.puzzles newsgroup.
	www.greylabyrinth.com /puzzles/puzzle.php?puzzle_id=puzzle075 (339 words)

	Epistemic Paradoxes
		Sleeping Beauty is an ideal reasoner who knows she will be given a sleeping pill that induces limited amnesia.
		On Monday, Sleeping Beauty wakes knowing that she either is genuinely remembering that the coin landed heads or she is pseudo-remembering the coin landing heads.
		Sleeping Beauty worries that she will risk not studying or, in any case, will not study as hard as she would if she knew or believed there was a test on Friday.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/epistemic-paradoxes (10341 words)

	Sleeping
		In the society in which she lives, as in the culture that enscripts her destiny, survival for women means perforce "sleeping with the enemy." For it means loving those who implicate her in their own corruption.
		Paradoxical as it might seem, given the enormous amount she published, it is no wonder then that Sarah Piatt was so fully and completely forgotten.
		Writing in a day and time when women were still obligated to see themselves as society's "good angels," her poetry came too soon for the post-World War I generation that would have appreciated and understood the sources of her anger, the reasons and necessity behind her despair.
	www.rit.edu /~pjknge/PiattPage/sleeping.html (3205 words)

	Sleeping Beauty Awakened: Why the New Day Brings New Odds
		When Sleeping Beauty finds herself awakened by the experimenters, with no memory of a prior awakening and with no ability to tell whether or not it is Monday, what probabilities should she assign to HEADS and TAILS respectively?
		One such case is a version of the Sleeping Beauty story in which the coin is tossed on Sunday evening, before Sleeping Beauty is put to sleep.
		So my recommended treatment of the Sleeping Beauty problem probably is applicable to cases involving loss of self-identity information, and/or to cases in which the loss of self-location or self-identity information results from some factor other than potential cognitive mishap.
	dingo.sbs.arizona.edu /~thorgan/papers/Beauty.htm (4088 words)

	Decision Theory (and related topics)
		I argue that an adequate diagnosis of the reasoning that generates the two-envelope paradox reveals two important morals: (1) epistemic probability is intensional (i.e., substitutivity salva veritate fails for sentential contexts governed by the probability operator), and (2) this intensionality generates hitherto unnoticed, nonstandard, forms of expected utility.
		The flaw in the paradoxical reasoning, I claim, is that it involves a form of nonstandard expected utility whose maximization is not rationally appropriate in context.
		Sleeping Beauty Awakened: New Odds at the Dawn of the New Day, (Forthcomming in Analysis).
	dingo.sbs.arizona.edu /~thorgan/publications/dectheory.htm (329 words)

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	Sexual Paradox: Tantra
		The immense beauty of the Tantric tradition, if it can be called that, is fivefold: Firstly it is based on sexual love as an integrated biological and spiritual manifestation of genesis.
		Here is the bed where She sleeps, giving you grounding and stability, security and peace, with your roots buried deeply in the Earth.
		He is the Lord of Sleep, the undifferentiated bliss of meditation, unified with all that is. He is the wisdom of pure consciousness, the divine intelligence that shapes primordial chaos into order and form.
	www.dhushara.com /paradoxhtm/tantra.htm (6658 words)

	Ehrlich.sleeping
		The sense of tragedy in the film is seen, not in the scenes of the young protagonist locked in a coma, but rather in the plight of the Sough East Asian women who work in the mountainous region of Gumma prefecture where the story takes place.
		When it opens its arms, there’s a birth." While circular themes in the narrative are subtle, circular images in the sets--waterwheels, the translucent moon painted on the screen in Takuji’s room, the actual moon viewed by all the main characters, the arch of the rainbow--are far larger than expected.
		In Sleeping Man, Takuji’s mother, assured that she has seen her son’s soul escaping in a "dust-devil" blowing outside the window, instructs all those present to make loud noises to call back the soul.
	www.unomaha.edu /jrf/Ehrlich.htm (2984 words)

	The Sleeping Beauty Problem
		The interpretation of this latter problem strikes at the very heart of the meaning of mutually exclusive events and those who commit to a view on the problem usually fall into one of two groups : halfers or thirders, corresponding to the probability answer they arrive at.
		We plan to put Beauty to sleep by chemical means, and then we’ll flip a fair coin.
		When awakened (and during the interview) Beauty will not be able to tell which day it is, nor will she remember whether she has been awakened before.
	barryispuzzled.com /zbeauty.htm (1685 words)

	TITLE: "PARADOX" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Lt Braca had been sleeping fitfully but now he was troubled by dreams that demanded he wake.
		He was given a glimpse of another future, one filled with light not darkness and his soul wept with the beauty of it.
		The others were all in their quarters trying to rest in what was left of the sleep cycle.
	www.squidge.org /~peja/farscape/firestorm9paradox.htm (3409 words)

	PhilSci Archive - Sleeping Beauty in Flatland
		I argue that the root cause of the flaw in the argument for 1/3 is an erroneous assimilation with a repeated experiment.
		Lastly, I present an informative variant of the original Sleeping Beauty experiment that casts light on the diagnosis of the fallacy in the argument for 1/3.
		Sleeping Beauty and the Problem of World Reduction (deposited 22 January 2005)
	philsci-archive.pitt.edu /archive/00001580 (148 words)

	Preface. Quiller-Couch, Sir Arthur. 1910. The Sleeping Beauty and other Fairy Tales.
		Meanwhile, here are three of the most famous tales from Perrault’s wallet, and one, the evergreen Beauty and the Beast, by an almost forgotten authoress, Madame de Villeneuve.
		But his best answer was his urbane remark (for he kept his temper admirably) that these gentlemen did ill to dispute the superiority of the moderns while their own works gave proof of it.
		And as Beauty and the Beast is really but a variant of the immortal tale of Cupid and Psyche, I might—had I room to spare—attempt to prove to you that the children’s taste is here, as usually, right and classical.
	www.bartleby.com /76/5.html (1267 words)

	The Sleeping Beaty problem \| MetaFilter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		If it comes up heads, you randomly choose one of the Sleeping Beauties, wake her up, and ask her what the probability is that the coin came up heads.
		If Beauty's credence is predicated on the event of her waking, it should skew toward ci rcumstances that result in more awakenings.
		However, if Beauty's credence is not predicated on the event of her wak ing, then, as others have pointed out, the whole premise of the "thirder" view evaporates.
	www.metafilter.com /mefi/34463 (3681 words)

	Sleeping Beauty problems
		Beauty is rushed to the hospital after experiencing a sharp pain in her head.
		Beauty laughs as she thinks about how improbable that is. "Oh wait, my daughter should be here by now", thinks Beauty.
		So in our new problem Sleeping Beauty concludes that it was a tail 2/3 of the time, and a head 1/3 of the time, whatever she is told about the day.
	www.maproom.co.uk /sb.html (8412 words)

	Critical Beauty - Journal 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		So if there are beautiful young women in non-English speaking countries who dream of becoming Miss Universe someday, it is advisable to learn as much English as you possibly could.
		Peru is definitely one to watch out for, she is beautiful, and Nicaragua is very striking, a lot of personality, and charm.
		In an interview with Panamanian newspaper La Prensa, the 26-year-old beauty begged the public not to be scared of her - in reference to the SARS epidemic that has plagued China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and several other Asian countries.
	www.criticalbeauty.com /Journal_May_2003.html (7863 words)

	PhilSci Archive - Quantum Sleeping Beauty
		The Sleeping Beauty paradox in epistemology and the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics both raise problems concerning subjective probability assignments.
		Furthermore, there are striking parallels between the two cases; in both cases personal experience has a branching structure, and in both cases the agent loses herself among the branches.
		Then the dominant ‘thirder’ solution to the Sleeping Beauty paradox becomes incompatible with the tenability of the many-worlds interpretation.
	philsci-archive.pitt.edu /archive/00002715 (121 words)

	Sexual Paradox: The Fall
		Every house had a large sleeping platform, oriented towards the shrines, under which the buried skeletons of women and sometimes children were found.
		Gold artifacts including animals style plaques and temple pendants, fossilized sea shells, a beautiful bronze mirror, and a ceremonial altar were all part of her accoutrements.
		Paradoxically, under certain circumstances, concubines could rise to the highest positions in society.
	www.dhushara.com /paradoxhtm/fall.htm (20172 words)

	Island Paradise, Island Paradox
		We were encouraged to visit Palmyra by its caretaker, veteran French cruiser Roger Lextrait, whom we met in Honolulu during one of his reprovisioning trips, "I've cruised the entire Pacific from Alaska to the Solomon Islands," he told us.
		Atolls are the most fascinating land masses in the ocean world, but they claim more than their share of boats.
		Care in approaching, entering, and crossing the lagoons is essential if you hope to enjoy their peace and beauty.
	labyrinth13.com /IslandParadox.htm (5376 words)

	The Complete Fairy Tales - George MacDonald - Penguin Group (USA)
		But though they allude to familiar tales such as "Sleeping Beauty" and "Jack the Giant-Killer," MacDonald’s stories are profoundly experimental and subversive.
		By questioning the concept that a childhood associated with purity innocence, and fairy-tale "wonder" ought to be segregated from adult skepticism and disbelief, they invite adult readers to adopt the same elasticity and open-mindedness that come so naturally to a child.
		Enlisting paradox, play, and nonsense much like Lewis Carroll’s Alice books, these fictions challenge us to question and rethink our assumptions, and offer an elusive yet meaningful alternative order to dubious certitudes of everyday life.
	us.penguingroup.com /nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,0_9780140437379,00.html (256 words)

	The Books: The Polio Paradox by Richard L. Bruno, H.D., Ph.D. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Unbearable fatigue; leg and arm weakness; burning muscles and joints; head, back, and neck pain; trouble sleeping, breathing, and swallowing....Although polio epidemics are a nightmare from the past, millions of middle-aged polio survivors are today being disabled by these Post-Polio Sequelae (PPS), the sequel to having had polio.
		Outlining the remarkable similarities between PPS, chronic fatigue syndrome, myalgic encephalomyelitis, and fibromyalgia, as well as the nearly seventy-year history of chronic fatigue outbreaks that occurred at the same time as the polio epidemics, he shows how The Post-Polio Institute program is equally effective in managing PPS, chronic fatigue, and chronic pain.
		THE POLIO PARADOX offers real solutions for polio survivors, those with CFS, ME, and FM—as well as anyone aging with a long-term disability—and provides a ringing wake-up call for their doctors.
	www.twbookmark.com /books/46/0446529079/index.html (449 words)

	DANCE VIEW; ERIK BRUHN - EPITOME OF THE DANSEUR NOBLE - New York Times
		It is a paradox of history - political history and cultural history - that figures who are perceived as conservative often make the break with tradition or past policy that their more liberal counterparts cannot.
		To appreciate Erik Bruhn was to understand the complexity and paradoxes behind his career.
		Because he was born in Denmark and trained at the Royal Danish Ballet (from whose school he graduated in 1947), the outside world considered him the epitome of Danish training.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9A0DE6D9103EF930A25757C0A960948260 (786 words)

	Zac Poonen: Beauty For Ashes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		He compared himself with the other angels and felt that he was wiser, more beautiful and more exalted than them all.
		It is only as we are willing to humble ourselves and acknowledge our corruption and respond wholeheartedly to the Father's love, that we shall be able to feast with Him at His table.
		It must have been physically exhausting too - working and sleeping out in the open, exposed to the sun and the dew and the rain.
	poonen.org /zac/beauty_for_ashes.html (13651 words)

	Answer to Sleeping Beauty
		Secondly, I'd like to thank our reader, Adam, for pointing out a Usenet thread archived on Deja.com which identifies the author of the original version of the paradox as Adam Elga.
		The heart of this paradox is epistemic in nature- how should S.B. make a statement of fact about this probability.
		If you enjoyed this paradox, there is collection of derived problems here: http://www.maproom.co.uk/sb.html.
	www.greylabyrinth.com /puzzles/answer.php?puzzle_id=puzzle075 (400 words)

	Antimeta
		The ordinary paradox is approximately, "It's raining, but I don't know that it's raining", which is certainly a very bad thing for anyone to ever assert, but is perfectly reasonable to suppose or embed in the antecedent of a conditional.
		Depending on your account of epistemic modals, this should mean approximately the same as "It's raining, but it might not be raining" - which is just as bad to assert, but is interestingly about equally bad to suppose or embed in a conditional.
		But I th ink a lot of what he says in the chapter is useful, and I intend to study it more to see what it says about the particular infinities and zeroes that I've been worrying about in probability theory.
	www.ocf.berkeley.edu /~easwaran/blog (4095 words)

	Index to Comic Art Collection: "Sleaze" to "Slewfoot"
		"To Sleep In, or Not to Sleep In, That is the Question"* (Hagar the Horrible, Feb. 20, 1999) / Chris Browne.
		At the same time both the humans and the Sinkha make disturbing discoveries about the nature of Thalissar: it was not built as a city by humans, but rather found and moved into a thousand years earlier.
		After the battle the alien diagnoses the problem as Kryptonian Sleeping Sickness, against which he was never vaccinated because he left Krypton before it was scheduled.
	www.lib.msu.edu /comics/rri/srri/sle.htm (8455 words)

	Literary Terms
		The Romantic poets used the ode to explore both personal or general problems; they often started with a meditation on something in nature, as did Keats in "Ode to a Nightingale" or Shelley in"Ode to the West Wind." Click here for a fuller discussion of the ode.
		Paradox: a statement whose two parts seem contradictory yet make sense with more thought.
		Christ used paradox in his teaching: "They have ears but hear not." Or in ordinary conversation, we might use a paradox, "Deep down he's really very shallow." Paradox attracts the reader's or the listener's attention and gives emphasis.
	academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu /english/melani/lit_term.html (3013 words)

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