3rd November 2005, 1:52 PM
Paradox is a logical flaw, ilke the one where you kill your ancestor to prevent your own birth, which prevents you from killing your ancestor and so on. This makes total logical sense, it's just self defeating. Catch 22, or whatever the logical term for that is...
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)