There’s so many good ones, and I’d probably say Russel’s (what’s in the set of every set that doesn’t contain itself?), but recently the unexpected hanging has come up a couple times. That one is all about how theories or rules can break if they become contingent on how an observer is thinking about them (including state of knowledge of the situation).
There’s so many good ones, and I’d probably say Russel’s (what’s in the set of every set that doesn’t contain itself?), but recently the unexpected hanging has come up a couple times. That one is all about how theories or rules can break if they become contingent on how an observer is thinking about them (including state of knowledge of the situation).