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Foreword to third edition;
Introduction;
Suggested reading;
1. Zeno's paradoxes: space, time, and motion;
1.1 Introduction;
1.2 Space;
1.3 The Racetrack;
1.4 The Racetrack again;
1.5 Achilles and the Tortoise;
1.6 The Arrow; Suggested reading;
2. Moral paradoxes;
2.1 Crime reduction;
2.2 Mixed blessings;
2.3 Not being sorry;
2.4 Moral dilemmas;
Suggested reading;
3. Vagueness: the paradox of the heap;
3.1 Sorites paradoxes: preliminaries;
3.2 Sorites paradoxes: some options;
3.3 Accepting the conclusion: Unger's view;
3.4 Rejecting the premises: the epistemic theory;
3.5 Rejecting the premises: supervaluations;
3.6 Rejecting the reasoning: degrees of truth;
3.7 Vague objects?; Suggested reading;
4. Acting rationally;
4.1 Newcomb's paradox;
4.2 The Prisoner's Dilemma; Suggested reading;
5. Believing rationally;
5.1 Paradoxes of confirmation;
5.1.1 Background;
5.1.2 The paradox of the Ravens;
5.1.3 'Grue';
5.2 The Unexpected Examination;
5.3 Revising the Unexpected Examination;
5.4 The Knower; Suggested reading;
6. Classes and truth;
6.1 Russell's paradox;
6.2 The Liar: semantic defects;
6.3 Grounding and truth;
6.4 The Strengthened Liar;
6.5 Levels;
6.6 Self-reference;
6.7 Indexicality;
6.8 Indexical circularity;
6.9 Comparison: how similar are Russell's paradox and the Liar?;
Suggested reading;
7. Are any contradictions acceptable?;
7.1 Contradictions entail everything;
7.2 A sentence which is both true and false could have no intelligible content;
7.3 Three dualities;
7.4 Negation;
7.5 Falsehood and untruth;
Suggested reading;
Appendix I. Some more paradoxes;
Appendix II. Remarks on some text questions and appended paradoxes; Bibliography;
Index.
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