What Does Paradox Mean?

Paradox of the Chicken and the Egg Explained by a Farmer

Socrates said, “I know only one thing. That is, I do not know anything. ” Does this mean that Socrates really does not know anything, or one thing, or many things?

This sentence of Socrates is a paradox. A paradox is a kind of sentence or statement from which no unique conclusion can be drawn. Rather the descriptions of such problems create two contradictory solutions, one of which is true the other is not possible. There…