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Author: HappyMaskMan

Oct 21st 2010 at 8:52:15 PM

* A classic example comes from the Han Feizi. A merchant selling spears and shields claims that his spears can pierce anything and his shields can't be broken. When someone asks him what would happen if he were to strike the shield with the spear, he is unable to answer. This is where the Chinese word for "contradiction" comes from, and there are a lot of examples that reference this story directly.

And three video game examples:
* The Han Feizi story is retold in ''Phoenix Wright: AceAttorney''. The "King of Prosecutors" trophy is a broken shield and knife, showing the result of the truth being pursued to its conclusion.
* One mini-boss in ''TheLegendOfZelda: OracleOfAges'' is defeated this way. You have to trick it into hitting its unbreakable shield with its unbreakable sword to destroy both.
* The Iron Clefts in ''PaperMario: The Thousand-Year Door'' claim that their bodies can withstand any attack and their spikes can pierce anything. To defeat them, you have to knock them into each other with Yoshi's Gulp attack.