axiom of reducibility

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theory of Russell and Whitehead

  • Achilles paradox
    In foundations of mathematics: Impredicative constructions

    …introduce an additional axiom, the axiom of reducibility, which rendered their enterprise impredicative after all. More recently, the Swedish logician Per Martin-Löf presented a new predicative type theory, but no one claims that this is adequate for all of classical analysis. However, the German-American mathematician Hermann Weyl (1885–1955) and the…

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