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Burali-Forti paradox

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. The paradox that supposing the existence of a set of all ordinal numbers leads to a contradiction; construed as meaning that it is not a properly defined set.

Word forms

Burali-Forti paradox the Burali-Forti paradox Burali-Forti's paradox

Etymology

Named after Cesare Burali-Forti, who in 1897 published a paper proving a theorem which, unknown to him, contradicted a previously proved result by Georg Cantor.

Related words

Russell's paradox
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