PARADOXUL CA EROARE LOGICĂ
Paradox as a logical error

Summary/Abstract: My study is an approach of the paradoxes in thecontext of general theory of logical errors. I have set out to show: 1) if the paradoxescan be attributed to a particular error, or to a category of logical errrors, and 2) ifparadoxes can join paralogisms, sophisms and apporias into a unitary approach. At thesame time, I have attempted an analysis of Aristotle’s paradox concept in directcomparison with modern paradoxes. Remarcable for Aristotle’s paradox analysis is therole of the question. On account of paradoxical interogation, and because of it, I haveintroduced the distinction between the active and pasive contradiction. As I have triedto show, paradoxes, in the modern sense of the term, are passive contradictions,needing to be activated through questioning. In the final part, I have discussed the limitsof the paralogistic conception regarding paradoxes.

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