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Cantor’s paradox

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In set theory: Cardinality and transfinite numbers
The so-called Cantor paradox, discovered by Cantor himself in 1899, is the following. By the unrestricted principle of abstraction, the formula “x is a set” defines a set U; i.e., it is the set of all sets. Now P(U) is a set of sets and so P(U)…
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