12/3/21

Fun, interesting read. My only critique is that the paradox for each letter trope is a bit of stretch, with some of the paradoxes being fairly similar- also Clark dismisses some paradoxes pretty easily, if they are so simple to solve why bother to include them? ( )

Accessible to-the-point on tens of paradoxes from classics Achilles and his tortoise like, over mathematical Hilberts hotels like and - of course - the liar paradox as well as some less known. Each paradox has its separate short chapter making it feel like a Wikipedia article. And indeed one may ask what it gives extra compared to the good hyperlinked articles on paradoxes on Wikipedia? Well, the book is sourcable and requires no network connection or batteries for reading.

One paradox I find interesting is arising from the question 'What is one of the most useful pairs of question and answer!'.
Is that question and its answer itself a solution? But as author Michael Clark writes 'it is so uninformatitve'. Perhaps it could be a way to characterize science: science attempts to pose the question: Which questions and answer pairs are useful? ( )