conundra

إِنْجِلِيْزِيَّة

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Alternative forms

• conundrums قالب:qualifier

اسم

conundra ج.

1. صِيْغَةُ جَمْعٍ مُفْرَدُهَا [[conundrum]].
   • 1992, Steve Chan and Cal Clark, Flexibility, Foresight, and Fortuna in Taiwan's Development, Routledge, ISBN 0-415-07596-3, page 11,

     We present below the major policy paradoxes or conundra indicated by such research and theorizing.

   • 2000, Willem A. DeVries and Timm Triplett Knowledge, Mind, and the Given, Hackett Publishing ISBN 0-87220-550-9, page xlv,

     Indeed, in the Cartesian view, the inability to draw an appropriate connection between the mental and the physical results in both metaphysical and epistemological conundra: the mind-body problem, the problem of knowledge of the external world, and the problem of other minds.

   • 2007, Ned Block, Consciousness, Function, and Representation, MIT Press, ISBN 0-262-02603-1, page 218,

     Rey is worried about conundra involving epiphenomenalism, zombies and such, and to avoid them he wants to reduce phenomenal consciousness to the computational.