In mathematical logic, Russell's paradox (also known as Russell's antinomy) is a set-theoretic paradox published by the British philosopher and mathematician...
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completely, however, lecturing on the paradoxes of set theory (Burali-Forti paradox, Cantor's paradox, and Russell's paradox) to a meeting of the Deutsche...
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paradox and Skolem's concept of relativity to the study of the philosophy of language. One of the earliest results in set theory, published by Cantor...
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must be at rest. Based on the work of Georg Cantor, Bertrand Russell offered a solution to the paradoxes, what is known as the "at-at theory of motion"...
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Naive set theory (section Cantor's theory)
theory, for instance Cantor's paradox and the Burali-Forti paradox, and did not believe that they discredited his theory. Cantor's paradox can actually be...
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Absolute infinite (redirect from Cantor's absolute)
Georg Cantor. It can be thought of as a number that is bigger than any other conceivable or inconceivable quantity, either finite or transfinite. Cantor linked...
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Set theory (category Georg Cantor)
After the discovery of paradoxes within naive set theory (such as Russell's paradox, Cantor's paradox and the Burali-Forti paradox), various axiomatic systems...
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{N} } , proving Cantor's theorem. Cantor's theorem and its proof are closely related to two paradoxes of set theory. Cantor's paradox is the name given...
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Aristotle's wheel paradox is a paradox or problem appearing in the pseudo-Aristotelian Greek work Mechanica. It states as follows: A wheel is depicted...
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different paradox. Berry’s letter actually talks about the first ordinal that can’t be named in a finite number of words. According to Cantor’s theory such...
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not itself have a cardinality, as this would lead to a paradox of the Burali-Forti type. Cantor instead said that it was an "inconsistent" collection which...
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(1905), is strongly related to Cantor's diagonal argument on the uncountability of the set of real numbers. The paradox begins with the observation that...
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paradox. Algebra of sets Alternative set theory Category of sets Class (set theory) Family of sets Fuzzy set Mereology Principia Mathematica Cantor,...
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Universal set (category Paradoxes of naive set theory)
non-existence, based on different choices of axioms for set theory. Russell's paradox concerns the impossibility of a set of sets, whose members are all sets...
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used by Cantor in proving his results in transfinite arithmetic are essentially the same as those used by Russell in constructing his paradox. Hence how...
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Richard's article is translated into English. The paradox can be interpreted as an application of Cantor's diagonal argument. It inspired Kurt Gödel and Alan...
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Burali-Forti paradox. Georg Cantor had apparently discovered the same paradox in his (Cantor's) "naive" set theory and this become known as Cantor's paradox. Russell's...
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sets, the behavior is more complex. A fundamental theorem due to Georg Cantor shows that it is possible for infinite sets to have different cardinalities...
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Mathematical logic (section Set theory and paradoxes)
Banach–Tarski paradox, is one of many counterintuitive results of the axiom of choice. The continuum hypothesis, first proposed as a conjecture by Cantor, was...
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When paradoxes such as Russell's paradox, Berry's paradox and the Burali-Forti paradox were discovered in Cantor's naive set theory, the issue became...
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Raymond A. Whyte (section Cantor-Fitzgerald paintings)
including B. Gerald Cantor, Malcolm Forbes and R. McLean Stewart. Five of Whyte's works were exhibited in the offices of Cantor-Fitzgerald and destroyed...
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Galileo's paradox is a demonstration of one of the surprising properties of infinite sets. In his final scientific work, Two New Sciences, Galileo Galilei...
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finite is said to be countably infinite. The concept is attributed to Georg Cantor, who proved the existence of uncountable sets, that is, sets that are not...
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John Myhill (redirect from Russell–Myhill paradox)
Myhill isomorphism theorem is a computability-theoretic analogue of the Cantor–Bernstein–Schroeder theorem that characterizes the recursive isomorphisms...
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Cantor Normal Form. Suppes, Patrick (1960), Axiomatic Set Theory, D.Van Nostrand, ISBN 0-486-61630-4. Tait, William W. (1997), "Frege versus Cantor and...
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initiated by Georg Cantor and Richard Dedekind in the 1870s. However, the discovery of paradoxes in naive set theory, such as Russell's paradox, led to the desire...
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paradox) in this treatment (Cantor's paradox), by Russell's discovery (1902) of an antinomy in Frege's 1879 (Russell's paradox), by the discovery of more...
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original (PDF) on 1 April 2017. Van Dalen, Dirk; Ebbinghaus, Heinz-Dieter (June 2000). "Zermelo and the Skolem Paradox". The Bulletin of Symbolic Logic...
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Ordered pair (section Cantor–Frege definition)
(1998). Early in the development of the set theory, before paradoxes were discovered, Cantor followed Frege by defining the ordered pair of two sets as...
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comprehension and the axiom of extensionality) is inconsistent due to Russell's paradox. In early formalizations of sets, mathematicians and logicians have avoided...
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