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From our limited and largely preemptive perspectives, we cannot attest to any span of truth. The distance between whole and partially whole truths is further widened by the duration before, during, and after the object of perception, and the event upon which it is expatiated in our contemplations and computations. With this in mind, we examine a problem whereby paradox itself propels an endless set of self-referential scientific paradoxes.
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Tobias, M.C., Morrison, J.G. (2021). Ecological Contradiction, Antinomy, and Counter-Intuition. In: On the Nature of Ecological Paradox. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-64526-7_10
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