About Russell's paradox

In mathematical logic, Russell's paradox is a set-theoretic paradox published by the British philosopher and mathematician, Bertrand Russell, in 1901. Russell's paradox shows that every set theory that contains an unrestricted comprehension principle leads to contradictions.

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Russell's paradox

paradox in set theory concerning the set of all sets not containing themselves

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