[vsuperpower2020]

This may be true, but if it is the canadian journal of philosophy is doing their reputation no favors by publishing the "answering machine paradox". Paradox. Paradox. That's a funny word, isn't it? Paradox.

[djur]

A paradox is just a statement that is self-contradictory. It doesn't mean a difficult or mind-bending problem as it is sometimes used colloquially.

[Joker_vD]

No, that's pretty much what the word "paradox" used to mean, but logicians of the late XIX–early XX century had hijacked it.

    PARADOX, in philoſophy, a propoſition ſeemingly abſurd,
      as being contrary to to ſome received opinion, but yet true
      in fact.
        No ſcience abounds more with paradoxes than geome-
      try: thus, that a right line ſhould continually approach
      to the hyperbola, and yet never reach it, is a true para-
      dox; and in the ſame manner, a ſpiral may continually
      approach to the point, and yet not reach it, in any number
      of revolutions, however great.

                                 Encyclopaedia Brittanica, 1771,
                                                  Vol. 3, p. 455