A paradox is a Figure of speech which consists of the use of expressions that involve a contradiction. This means that, beyond the contradictory conditions, the factors presented are valid, real or plausible. The term comes from the Latin paradoxus (which, in turn, has its origin in the Greek language).

For example: “He is such a poor person that all he has is a lot of money”, “The goodness of his actions only ended up generating great evil”, “To get there fast, nothing better than going slowly”.

types of paradoxes

It is important to establish that there are many types of paradoxes. Thus, specifically, two large groups are determined in order to carry out their classification. In this way, on the one hand there are the paradoxes based on their veracity and on the other those that are ordered based on the area of ​​knowledge in which they are used or developed.

In the first large group, we find four fundamental types of paradoxes:

• Antinomies. They are those that give rise to a result that contradicts itself.
• conditionals. This term is the one used to define all those paradoxes that are used to make certain assumptions clear.
• By definition. They have the particularity that they are those paradoxes whose fundamental pillar is a definition that is not at all clear, quite the contrary, it is completely ambiguous.
• true. Under this denomination are the paradoxes that seem to give rise to a result that is absurdbut they can be easily shown to be true.

In the second large group, in which the classification is based on the areas of knowledge in which they are used, we must highlight the existence of the following types of paradoxes:

• Economy. There are many and varied paradoxes in this field: of value, of savings, of gibsonof parrondo…
• Math. Within this aforementioned classification we would have to underline the existence of another subgrouping: logic, infinity, probability…
• Physical. Among the best known are Bellthat of Young Or the twins.

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