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Russell's paradox
noun
Mathematics.
- a paradox of set theory in which an object is defined in terms of a class of objects that contains the object being defined, resulting in a logical contradiction.
Russell's paradox
noun
- logic the paradox discovered by Bertrand Russell in the work of Gottlob Frege, that the class of all classes that are not members of themselves is a member of itself only if it is not, and is not only if it is. This undermines the notion of an all-inclusive universal class
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Word History and Origins
Origin of Russell's paradox1
First recorded in 1920–25; first proposed by Bertrand Russell
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However, the hole in logic, called Russell’s paradox, remained open.
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Even if you could, you’d still be stuck with Russell’s paradox.
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