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Article #329Re: Russell's Paradox
From: Frank Adams
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1992 17:25
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1992 17:25
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In article <25916@optima.cs.arizona.edu> gudeman@cs.arizona.edu (David Gudeman) writes:
>No, I am not complaining about elementhood being a proposition, I am
>complaining about a syntactic circularity begin treated as though it
>had semantic significance. Neither am I concerned about the
>unrestricted range of the quantification. As the set {x : x = x}
>clearly shows, there is no inconsistency inherent in either
>self-membership or impredicativity. I claim that {x : x = x} is a
>perfectly reasonable set and that the mere fact that ZF proves the
>opposite is enough to show that ZF is not an adequate axiomatization
>of set theory.
All right; but what would you put in it's place? I'm not willing to call
something "set theory" unless it has *some* recognizable form of the axiom
of comprehension. Can you formalize your ideas?
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