Russell's paradox
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In the foundations of mathematics, Russell's paradox (also known as Russell's antinomy), discovered by Bertrand Russell in 1901, showed that the naive set theory created by Georg Cantor leads to a contradiction. The same paradox had been discovered a year before by Ernst Zermelo but he did not publish the idea, which remained known only to Hilbert, Husserl and other members of the University of Göttingen.
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See also
- Cantor's diagonal argument
- "On Denoting", one of Russell's first attempts at critiquing Frege
- Self-reference
- Universal set
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