Berry paradox

短语

词形变化

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释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A particular self-referential paradox relating to the number of words in a descriptive phrase.

词源

Bertrand Russell, the first to discuss the paradox in print, attributed it to G. G. Berry (1867–1928), a junior librarian at Oxford's Bodleian library, who had suggested the more limited paradox arising from the expression "the first undefinable ordinal".

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