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- From: brendan@cs.uq.oz.au (Brendan Mahony)
- Newsgroups: sci.logic
- Subject: Re: Russell's Paradox
- Message-ID: <11040@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au>
- Date: 13 Nov 92 05:35:21 GMT
- References: <25916@optima.cs.arizona.edu> <1992Nov09.172532.43648@Cookie.secapl.com> <1992Nov10.001234.18488@guinness.idbsu.edu>
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- In <1992Nov10.001234.18488@guinness.idbsu.edu> holmes@garnet.idbsu.edu (Randall Holmes) writes:
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- >i. Russell's paradox does have _semantic_ consequences. Whatever
- >membership is, there is no set of all sets that are not members of
- >themselves. Certainly the mechanics of applying the paradox are
- >syntactical -- so what?
-
- I don't see that the Russell paradox of itself requires the
- non-existence of this object (RP).
- The most I could deduce from it is that the predicate
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- RP is a member of RP
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- has no truth value. I.e. the function 'is a member of' is not total.
-
- --
- 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."
-