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- From: ziane@nuri.inria.fr (ziane mikal -)
- Newsgroups: sci.logic
- Subject: Set of all sets + correcting MZ's syntax
- Message-ID: <4134@seti.UUCP>
- Date: 3 Sep 92 17:25:27 GMT
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- Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt,Le Chesnay, France.
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- In article <1992Aug25.120515.15090@husc3.harvard.edu> zeleny@husc9.harvard.edu (Michael Zeleny) writes:
- >Greetings,
- [...]
- >Je suis pr\^et \`a partir pour Paris jusqu'a 17 septembre; par
- >cons\'equent, il me sera impossible de tenir mes propos provocants.
- >Veuillez envoyer vos messages concernant mes defauts personnels \`a ma
- >adresse not\'ee ci-dessous.
- [...]
-
- I cannot resist. Correcting MZ is such a pleasure.
- It's "mon adresse" and not "ma adresse".
- I confess however that the rest of his French looks better
- than my English.
-
- BTW, Mishka, si tu passes par l'inria, viens donc me faire
- une petite visite au batiment 9 ou appelle moi a paname.
- Je suis dans l'annuaire.
-
-
- Since this can hardly justify a posting by itself here is something
- more interesting I hope.
-
- Russel's paradoxical set is the set of normal sets, i.e. sets which
- don't belong to themselves.
- However, the set of all sets, let's call it S, is often considered
- paradoxical because of the following, with P(S) the powerset of S:
-
- P(S) is included into S, then Card(P(S)) <= Card (S)
- which contradicts a theorem saying that
- Card(P(S)) > Card(S)
-
- However, looking back to the proof for Card(P(S)) > Card(S)
- it appears that the proof uses a set might quite be paradoxical !
- The idea is to consider a function from S onto P(S).
- If you take the identity the dubious set is indeed Russel's set !
-
- Thus you might as well reject the proof rather than the concept
- of set of all sets. However if you define sets with ZF it seems
- that you must accept the proof. The separation "axiom" which is
- in facta theorem of ZF, implies that the above dubious set be
- a proper set. (Am I wrong ?)
-
- The question is now, whether or not alternative axiomatizations
- have been proposed that are consistent with the existence of the
- set of all sets ?
-
- Also, I don't know anything yet about categories. I have heard
- though that the category of all the categories is not a pb.
- Does category theory have similar paradoxes though ?
-
- Do the problems with the set of all sets prevent the possibility
- to properly define an Abstract Data Type "set" ? Set of anything
- of course.
-
- Finaly, for computer scientists, is it problematic to have a
- universal type. I think of hierarchies in Object Oriented
- languages, where you have a root like Object or Class.
-
- Mikal Ziane.
-