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Re: A paradox? Why not?

On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, Doug Craigen wrote (in another thread):

..... to show how people learn particular situations as absolute
rules - I ask how it is that hot air rises but the air is colder the
higher up you go in the atmosphere (where all the hot air went)
.... most people are at a loss, having never even realized a
contradiction between two of their absolute rules.

A good example of a paradoxical situation. Paradoxes are subjective and
the process of learning should ideally create many paradoxes in student's
minds. Does anybody know a textbook of elementary physics in which
paradoxes are used to promote thinking and learning?

Ludwik Kowalski