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- From: brendan@cs.uq.oz.au (Brendan Mahony)
- Newsgroups: sci.logic
- Subject: Re: recursive definitions and paradoxes
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- Date: 23 Nov 92 01:26:54 GMT
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- In <1992Nov20.155725.11719@guinness.idbsu.edu> holmes@garnet.idbsu.edu (Randall Holmes) writes:
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- >This is inaccurate. Russell's paradox proves nothing except that
- >there is no set which has exactly the sets which are not elements of
- >themselves as members.
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- Come on Russel's `paradox' tells us that if we assume
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- (RS \in RS) or \lnot (RS \in RS)
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- we are in lots of trouble.
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- --
- When soldiers form lines or hollow squares, you call it reason.
- When wild geese in flight take the form of a letter V, you say instinct.
- When the homogeneous atoms of a mineral arrange themselves into shapes
- mathematically perfect you have nothing to say. You have not even invented a name to conceal your heroic unreason."
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