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- From: torkel@sics.se (Torkel Franzen)
- Newsgroups: sci.logic
- Subject: Re: Impredicativity - was: Russell's Paradox
- Message-ID: <TORKEL.92Nov5210509@lludd.sics.se>
- Date: 5 Nov 92 20:05:09 GMT
- References: <Bx81Ho.9HL@cantua.canterbury.ac.nz> <TORKEL.92Nov5103134@isis.sics.se>
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- In-Reply-To: holmes@garnet.idbsu.edu's message of 5 Nov 92 17:03:54 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov5.170354.29866@guinness.idbsu.edu> holmes@garnet.idbsu.edu
- (Randall Holmes) writes:
-
- >Neither A nor B can be shown to represent a unique object in ZFC-.
-
- Of course not! The question I was commenting on was whether it
- is provable in ZF without foundation that if there is a function f
- defined on the natural numbers satisfying f(n)={n,f(n+1)}, then there
- is a set x such that x={1,x}, and my answer was that in all likelihood
- this is not so.
-