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Interesting number paradox

Proper noun

Definitions

1.Proper nounA humorous paradox arising from the attempt to classify every natural number as either "interesting" or "uninteresting". If there exists a non-empty set of uninteresting natural numbers, there must be a smallest uninteresting number, but this number is paradoxically interesting because it is the smallest uninteresting number.

Synonyms

two envelopes problemtwo capacitor paradoxberkson's paradoxburali-forti paradoxskolem's paradoxirresistible force paradoxcrocodile dilemmagalileo's paradoxparadoxes of material implicationfredkin's paradoxlindley's paradoxrichard's paradox
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