Russell's paradox

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释义与例句

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    The paradox that a set defined to contain all sets which do not contain themselves can neither consistently contain itself nor not contain itself.

    数学

    2013, Greg Frost-Arnold, Carnap, Tarski, and Quine at Harvard: Conversations on Logic, Mathematics, and Science, Carus Publishing Company (Open Court), page 43, Roughly, the idea is that Russell's paradox reveals that certain logics suffer serious problems, and therefore these logics should be avoided. […] Here again, Quine asserts that the real lesson of Russell's paradox is that we should give up quantifying over abstracta.

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Named after English mathematician, logician and philosopher Bertrand Russell.

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