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- noun uncountable The paradox of
time travel in which objects or pieces of information are never literallycreated , because their existence begins by arriving from thefuture and ends by going to thepast to become themselves. - noun countable An instance of the bootstrap paradox.
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Compare bootstrap, pull oneself up by one's bootstraps, etc.
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