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Inventor's paradox

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paradox
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en Inventor's paradox ar مفارقة المخترع id Paradoks penemu ja インベンターのパラドックス ko 발명가의 역설 ru Парадокс изобретателя zh 發明者悖論
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  1. 5d ago · Difool · 2026-11-03 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → paradox
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'en', 'eo', 'hy', 'id', 'ja', 'ko', 'ru', 'zh']
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/63669|batch #63669]]"
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