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Paradoxes typically lead to a reevaluation of the axioms of mathematics. after axioms are assumed so that the paradox is averted, the statement is still usually referred to as a paradox.

Occasionally, one may refer to a surprising result as a paradox. Such is the case in the birthday paradox, which is not apparently self-contradictory.

Examples of paradoxes include:

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  birthday paradox (http://planetmath.org/BirthdayParadox)
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  Cantor’s paradox
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  Russell’s paradox
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  Simpson’s paradox
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  Zeno’s paradox