conundra

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   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.

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   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, […]

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

   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.

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

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

   2007, Ned Block, Consciousness, Function, and Representation, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 218

   Aristocrats don't notice philosophical conundra.

   2011, Terry Pratchet, Snuff, page 28