The Berry paradox is a self-referential paradox arising from an expression like "The smallest positive integer not definable in under sixty letters" (a...
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paradox is a humorous paradox which arises from the attempt to classify every natural number as either "interesting" or "uninteresting". The paradox states...
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conflicts with the notion that something is named by calling it unnameable. Berry paradox: The phrase "the first number not nameable in under ten words" appears...
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smallest positive integer not definable in under sixty letters" (see Berry's paradox). There is an infinite list of English phrases (such that each phrase...
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the result. (B) Berry's Paradox, first mentioned in the Principia Mathematica as fifth of seven paradoxes, is credited to Mr. G. G. Berry of the Bodleian...
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While Gödel's theorem is related to the liar paradox, Chaitin's result is related to Berry's paradox. These are natural mathematical equivalents of...
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A paradox is a logically self-contradictory statement or a statement that runs contrary to one's expectation. It is a statement that, despite apparently...
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The Hilbert–Bernays paradox is a distinctive paradox belonging to the family of the paradoxes of reference (like Berry's paradox). It is named after David...
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In philosophy and logic, the classical liar paradox or liar's paradox or antinomy of the liar is the statement of a liar that they are lying: for instance...
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This article contains a discussion of paradoxes of set theory. As with most mathematical paradoxes, they generally reveal surprising and counter-intuitive...
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appropriately.) The above proof uses a contradiction similar to that of the Berry paradox: "1The 2smallest 3positive 4integer 5that 6cannot 7be 8defined 9in 10fewer...
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of fatty acids.” The term "Israeli Paradox" was first used by researchers Daniel Yam, Abraham Eliraz and Elliot Berry in a 1996 article in the Israel Journal...
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background of statistical noise. See also Accuracy and precision. The Berry paradox arises as a result of systematic ambiguity in the meaning of terms such...
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tradition of mathematical paradoxes such as Russell's paradox and Berry's paradox, and ultimately to classical philosophical paradoxes. In game theory, undefined...
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of discourse is the natural numbers. The Gödel sentence builds on Berry's paradox. Let [n] abbreviate n successive applications of the successor function...
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read the literature upon returning to England, and came upon Russell's paradox. In 1903 he published The Principles of Mathematics, a work on the foundations...
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The preparedness paradox is the proposition that if a society or individual acts effectively to mitigate a potential disaster such as a pandemic, natural...
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poset paradox 1. Berry's paradox 2. Burali-Forti's paradox 3. Cantor's paradox 4. Hilbert's paradox 5. König's paradox 6. Milner–Rado paradox 7. Richard's...
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work on transfinite numbers. When paradoxes such as Russell's paradox, Berry's paradox and the Burali-Forti paradox were discovered in Cantor's naive...
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reals, etc. are definable. Berry's paradox Constructible universe Entscheidungsproblem Ordinal definable set Richard's paradox Tarski's undefinability theorem...
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BlackBerry Limited (formerly Research In Motion or RIM for short) is a Canadian software company specializing in cybersecurity. Founded in 1984, it developed...
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While Gödel's theorem is related to the liar paradox, Chaitin's result is related to Berry's paradox. In 2007, researchers Kurtz and Simon, building...
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by Jean Wahl. It published in 1906 Bertrand Russell's article on the Berry paradox, as well as articles by Louis Bachelier, the logicist Jean Nicod, the...
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The service recovery paradox (SRP) is a situation in which a customer thinks more highly of a company after the company has corrected a problem with their...
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tacitly permits, seems problematic. For one thing, it results in the Berry paradox". These authors add: "We have no objection to natural language specifications...
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may not be sufficient to resolve ambiguity). In mathematics, with Berry's paradox, there arises a similar systematic ambiguity with the word "definable"...
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Intracranial aneurysm (redirect from Intracranial berry aneurysm)
into small, large, giant , and super-giant, and by shape into saccular (berry), fusiform, and microaneurysms. Saccular aneurysms are the most common type...
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Johnny B. Goode (category Songs written by Chuck Berry)
"Johnny B. Goode" is a song by American musician Chuck Berry, written and sung by Berry in 1958. Released as a single in 1958, it peaked at number two...
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Sleeping Beauty problem (redirect from Sleeping beauty paradox)
The Sleeping Beauty problem, also known as the Sleeping Beauty paradox, is a puzzle in decision theory in which an ideally rational epistemic agent is...
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embolism can cause ischemia—damage to an organ from lack of oxygen. A paradoxical embolism is a specific type of embolism in which the embolus travels...
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