Before revision: Quine's classification W. V. O. Quine (1962) distinguished between three classes of paradoxes: According to Quine's classification of paradoxes: A veridical paradox produces a result that appears absurd , but is demonstrated to be true nonetheless: Condorcet's paradox demonstrates the surprising result that majority rule can be self-contradictory, i.e.
After revision: Quine's classification W. V. O. Quine (1962) distinguished between three classes of paradoxes: According to Quine's classification of paradoxes: A veridical paradox produces a result that appears counter to intuition , but is demonstrated to be true nonetheless: Condorcet's paradox demonstrates the surprising result that majority rule can be self-contradictory, i.e.