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It is a veridical paradox, not a falsidical paradox.

A falsidical paradox is what most people think of as a formal paradox: from the assertions you derive a conclusion which is false (either deductively or inductively).

A veridical paradox is where you derive a true result which appears absurd. it is an informal classification based on intuition. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banach%E2%80%93Tarski_paradox is a classic veridical paradox.



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