Wiki - The paradox of tolerance states that if a society is tolerant without limit, its ability to be tolerant is eventually ceased or destroyed by the intolerant. Karl Popper described it as the seemingly self-contradictory idea that in order to maintain a tolerant society, the society must retain the right to be intolerant of intolerance.

  • frezik
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    1 year ago

    A paradox doesn’t have to be a direct logical contradiction in a system. The original Greek literally translates to “against belief”, and can apply to something that looks contradictory on the surface, but isn’t once it’s teased apart for a bit. It’s still used this way all the time in mathematics as well as philosophy.