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    Challenges→R. M. Sainsbury's definition of a paradox should be rejected

    Under Sainsbury's definition, the negation of any belief would count as a paradox, since one's remaining beliefs serve as apparently acceptable premises from which an apparently unacceptable conclusion (the negation) follows

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    Conclusion(Output of an Argument; may be singular (C) or plural (C1, C2, etc.))
    A logically interconnected result produced by an Argument within a Deduction
    Sainsbury(The statement refers to 'Sainsbury's definition,' meaning a particular philosopher's take on the problem)
    A contemporary philosopher who has written about logic and paradoxes—in this case, someone who developed a specific way of thinking about what counts as contradictory or problematic in our beliefs.
    negation(Standard truth conditions for logical negation, used as the basis for arguments against dialetheism)
    ¬A is true if and only if A is not true

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    paradox(R. M. Sainsbury's definition, presented as a target of criticism)
    An apparently unacceptable conclusion derived by apparently acceptable reasoning from apparently acceptable premises
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    If you know that your beliefs are jointly inconsistent but deny this makes for a giant paradox, then you should reject R. M. Sainsbury’s definition of a paradox as “an apparently unacceptable conclusion derived by apparently acceptable reasoning from apparently acceptable premises” (1995, 1). Take the negation of any of your beliefs as a conclusion and your remaining beliefs as the premises. You should judge this jumble argument as valid, and as having premises that you accept, and yet as having

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