Paradox
Episode #1.2
| S 1 | Ep 2 | 2009/12/01 |
| TV Miniseries Episode | 60 min | |
| CRI DRA SF | UK | |
Christian King's Prometheus lab receives eight pictures, seven of which predict that a schoolboy called Jack Barclay will drown in an underground sewer. Jack has played truant with older friend Danny, whose car is amongst the images, but Danny is, for whatever reason, obsessed with Jack and imprisons him in an underground cell which begins to flood Rebecca tracks down Danny but he gets run over and killed. Added to the race of time to save Jack is the presence of an eighth image, which Christian has kept from Rebecca, because it shows an apparently dead Ben Holt.
Paradox
Episode #1.3
| S 1 | Ep 3 | 2009/12/08 |
| TV Miniseries Episode | 60 min | |
| CRI DRA SF | UK | |
Whilst Ben is annoyed that no one told him his 'death' was featured in the last batch of images,another seven pictures appear, including Holly's beauty shop and the Enterprise Club and seeming to foretell a violent attack on a woman. Investigations lead to Stuart Taylor, who served time for rape but he has no connection with either venue whilst Gerry Morrison's girlfriend Katie works at Holly's and is about to celebrate her birthday at the club. The team stake out both spots to try and save Katie.
Paradox
Episode #1.4
| S 1 | Ep 4 | 2009/12/15 |
| TV Miniseries Episode | 60 min | |
| CRI DRA SF | UK | |
Christian gets no joy from his bosses when he suspects the Ministry of Defence is controlling the images beamed to him, the latest dozen including those of burnt bodies and serial numbers from stolen bank-notes. Ben traces the cash to robbery suspect Tony Gooding and his money launderer, travel agent Martin Bennett, whose tie is in one of the pictures, as is a plane ticket Bennett sold maintenance man Jaz Roy. As the disaster deadline looms Jaz is working high up on a tower and Bennett torches his shop for the money, unaware that a woman is squatting in the building above. And Stuart Taylor is still stalking beauty shop owner Sonia, who will not heed Callum's warnings about him.
Paradox
Episode #1.5
| S 1 | Ep 5 | 2009/12/22 |
| TV Miniseries Episode | 60 min | |
| CRI DRA SF | UK | |
Christian's latest images show four corpses and the arm of their apparent slayer wearing Rebecca's watch. Ben meanwhile is concerned about his daughter Leah's friendship with local villain's son Zac Hedley, whose dozy younger brother has fallen in with a vicious knife gang who are persecuting Matt Hughes, a teacher standing up to them. Both brothers, Rebecca, Leah, Christian and Ben arrive at Matt's classroom at the time of the projected fatalities. Callum is still obsessive about Stuart Taylor after a murder at the beauty parlour and takes the law into his own hands.
Paradox
Episode #1.1
| S 1 | Ep 1 | 2009/11/24 |
| TV Miniseries Episode | 60 min | |
| CRI DRA SF | UK | |
Astro-physicist Christian King receives images from outer space showing fragments of an explosion which will occur in eighteen hours and result in several deaths. He approaches police inspector Rebecca Flint, who is initially unconvinced until she sees that a phone number among the images is genuine. With her team of Gada and Holt, and helped by King, she pinpoints the catastrophe as happening on a railway bridge, where a train has broken down and towards which a lorry containing explosive materials is heading. Ultimately, as Rebecca seeks solace with Gada, King sees more images projected onto his screens of likely future events. Arriving in her office after an unsuccessful night on stakeout, D.I. Rebecca Flint is called into her boss's office and is assigned a very unusual case. Dr. Christian King, a internationally renowned astrophysicist, has requested an intelligent, imaginative detective to investigate a very strange event. D.I. Flint goes to Dr. King's office and is confronted with a bizarre set of images apparently showing an explosion that hasn't happened yet! D.I. Flint accuses Dr. King of perpetrating a hoax and is about to leave when he gives her the telephone number from one of the images and tells her to call it. She does and it is real and is connected to the name Lauren, also from the image. D.I. Flint returns to Dr. Kings office with her team, D.S. Ben Holt and D.C. Callum Gada, and they begin to investigate the information provided by the images but with only six hours before the deadline the investigation becomes a deadly race against time to decipher the clues and avert a disaster.
Paradox
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Paradox
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After learning about the dangers of time travel, a young scientist gets caught up in a dangerous mission to prevent it from ever being invented.
Paradox
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"Paradox & Greenblatt, Attorneys at Law"
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Marty Paramus and his partner specialize in legal nuances arising from the new time-travel technology.
Paradox Gun
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A gun that has characteristics of both (smoothbore) shotguns and rifles.
"Paradox Lost"
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Paradox of American Power
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At the beginning of the 21st century, the US is as powerful as no nation before it, yet as dependent on the global community as never before.
Paradox of Analysis
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It seems that no conceptual analysis can both meet the requirement of correctness and of informativeness.
Paradox of Anti-Semitism
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A book arguing that the lack of external persecutions and antagonisms results in the dissolution of Jewish identity, a theory that resonates in works of Dershowitz and Sartre.
Paradox of Enrichment
Increasing the food available to an ecosystem may lead to instability, and even to extinction.
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Increasing the food available to an ecosystem may lead to instability, and even to extinction.
The Paradox of Entailment
Inconsistent premises always make an argument valid.
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The paradoxes of material implication are a group of formulae which are truths of classical logic, but which are intuitively problematic. One of these paradoxes is the paradox of entailment. The root of the paradoxes lies in a mismatch between the interpretation of the validity of logical implication in natural language, and its formal interpretation in classical logic, dating back to George Boole's algebraic logic. In classical logic, implication describes conditional if-then statements using a truth-functional interpretation, i.e. "p implies q" is defined to be "it is not the case that p is true and q false". Also, "p implies q" is equivalent to "p is false or q is true". For example, "if it is raining, then I will bring an umbrella", is equivalent to "it is not raining, or I will bring an umbrella, or both". This truth-functional interpretation of implication is called material implication or material conditional.
Paradox of Excellence
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Paradox of Fiction
How can people experience strong emotions from purely fictional things?
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A philosophical problem about how people can experience strong emotions from purely fictional things, such as art, literature, and imagination. The paradox draws attention to an everyday issue of how people are moved by things which, in many ways, do not really exist
Paradox of Free Will
If God knew how we will decide when he created us, how can there be free will?
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The argument from free will, also called the paradox of free will or theological fatalism, contends that omniscience and free will are incompatible and that any conception of God that incorporates both properties is therefore inherently contradictory. If God knew how we will decide when he created us, how can there be free will?
Paradox of Future Individuals
| S - | Ep - | 1982// |
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Also known as the non-identity problem, and offers a logical argument that seems to justify any action affecting future individuals, regardless of moral intention or outcome. Any large-scale change in human behavior will literally change the human race. Addresses our moral obligation to future persons to plan for the future now. In The Paradox of Future Individuals, Kavka presents the example of the slave child. A couple, who has decided not to have any children of their own, are offered $50,000 to create a child for someone else. This child will then be used as a slave. The couple is aware of the state of living that their future child will be put into. If they make this agreement they will use their earnings to buy a yacht. Because they have decided at the moment to not have any children of their own, this child would not exist unless he or she was created to be sold as a slave. æAccording to the extended obligation principle ñOne can have an obligation to choose act or policy A rather than alternative B if and only if (i) if one chose B, some particular person would exist and be worse off than if one had chosen A or (ii) if one chose A, some particular person would exist and be better off than if one had chosen B.î ææAccording to part two of this principle, the decision to create this child to be sold into slavery is moral because a child is given existence who would never have had an existence. When looking at this principle we must consider if mere existence is what should decide a person's fate. If we allowed people to use the principle that mere existence is what matters when bringing future people into the world, what motivation do parents have to protect their future children from any kind of harm? According to this principle, children who are abused and neglected are better off soley because they exist. This error in the extended obligation principle is what brings Kavka to the idea of a restricted life principle.