Genie Wishes And Non-Interesting Numbers
About the paradoxes around us
I was never too impressed with paradoxes, to be honest. It seemed like the most popular ones were pretty unimportant, non-interesting and just misusing the language in order to create some ambiguity or lack of meaning.
You probably heard about the most famous paradox- ”The liar paradox”, which is a good example of a non-impressive paradox, at least in my eyes.
In case you have no idea what I am talking about, this paradox is a sentence stating “This statement is false”.
If the statement itself is true then it is actually false and vice versa.
In this article, we are going to explore some other paradoxes, ones that I find more interesting, and hopefully so will you.
Genie wishes
A man is talking to a genie.
The man wishes that his wishes wouldn’t come true.
If the genie grants his wishes then he didn’t grant his wish.
If he’s not granting his wish then he actually is granting it.
Either way, it is impossible either to grant or not grant his wish without leading to a contradiction.
