conundra

English

Alternative forms

• conundrums (more common)

Noun

conundra

1. plural of conundrum
   • 1992, Steve Chan and Cal Clark, Flexibility, Foresight, and Fortuna in Taiwan's Development, Routledge, →ISBN, page 11,

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

   • 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 947:

     A woman at U. Cal–Irvine had earned tenure with an essay arguing that the reason-versus-no-reason debate about what was unentertaining in Himself's work illuminated the central conundra of millennial après-garde film, […]

   • 2000, Willem A. DeVries, Timm Triplett, Knowledge, Mind, and the Given, Hackett Publishing, →ISBN, 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, 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.

   • 2011, Terry Pratchet, Snuff, page 28:

     Aristocrats don't notice philosophical conundra.

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