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Brain Den: Paradoxes - http://brainden.com/paradoxes.htm
Presents well-known paradoxes, including liar, double liar, barber, and lazy-bones paradox. Also contains sophisms, and short paradoxical sentences from life.

Curry's Paradox - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/curry-paradox/
Discussion of a semantic paradox due to Haskell B. Curry; from the Stanford Encyclopedia by J. C. Beall.

Franz Kiekeben's Page: Philosophy - http://www.kiekeben.com/philosophy.html
Homepage maintained by Franz Kiekeben, containing short essays on well-known paradoxes, such as Newcomb's paradox.

LogicalParadoxes.info - http://www.logicalparadoxes.info/
A collection of proofs leading to absurd conclusions.

Paradox or Fallacy - http://www.paradoxes.info/
A discussion on paradox, with the goal being to determine what is paradox and what is fallacy.

Paradoxes and Dilemmas - http://perspicuity.net/paradox/paradox.html
Common paradoxes and dilemmas, particularly of the social type: the Voting Paradox, Prisoner's Dilemma, Newcomb's Paradox, Unexpected Hanging, Execution Paradox, and the Self-Amendment Paradox.

Puzzles: Famous Paradoxes - http://www.brainteaser-world.com/puzzles/paradoxes/paradoxes-archives.htm
This page offers over 20 fun and weird paradoxes.

Russell's Paradox - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/russell-paradox/
Entry in the Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy by A. D. Irvine.

Some Endeavours at Synthesising a Solution to the Sorites. - http://www.ul.ie/~philos/vol3/sorites.html
An introductory survey by Shawn Raylston.

Sorites Paradox - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/sorites-paradox/
Article in the Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy, by Dominic Hyde.

The Berry Paradox and Godel's Incompleteness Theorem - http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/CDMTCS/chaitin/unm2.html
Transcript of a lecture by Gregory Chaitin on how the Berry Paradox ("the smallest number that needs at least n words to specify it, where n is large") illuminates Godel's Incompleteness Theorem.

The Epimenides Paradox - http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~sjblatt/notes/nottrue.html
An analysis of several attempted resolutions of the Epimenides Paradox (also known as the Liar Paradox), showing how they all fail.

The World of Paradox - http://sps.nus.edu.sg/~ngbeesan/main.html
Site containing some well-known paradoxes, together with a discussion of each.

Zeno's Coffeehouse - http://www.valdosta.edu/~rbarnett/phi/zeno.html
Site maintained by Ron Barnette, which regularly proposes paradoxes in common sense reasoning and invites and publishes responses to them.

Zeno's Paradox of the Tortoise - http://www.mathacademy.com/pr/prime/articles/zeno_tort/
An article in the Platonic Realms.

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