(economics) The apparent paradox that a rent seeker wanting political favours can bribe politicians at a cost much lower than the value of the favour to the rent seeker.

(physics) The black hole information paradox.

Synonym of paradox of thrift

A particular paradox in mathematical logic; the type-theoretic analogue of Russell's paradox from set theory.

A form of self-referential logical paradox associated with statements of the form "All Cretans are liars" (spoken by Epimenedes, himself a Cretan, who must therefore be lying).

plural of Epimenides paradox

Synonym of unexpected hanging paradox

(game theory) The paradox whereby a combination of losing strategies (such as alternating between two games that each, played individually, would result in an overall loss) may give a winning strategy.

(probability theory) The counterintuitive observation that a random group of people needs to have only 23 members before there is a 50% chance of two of them having the same birthday.

(programming) The situation where a programmer sees less powerful programming languages than those he/she knows as lacking in important features, but more powerful ones as having bizarre or unnecessary features.