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[filed under theme 5. Theory of Logic / L. Paradox / 5. Paradoxes in Set Theory / a. Set theory paradoxes ]

Full Idea

The set-theoretical paradoxes are hardly any more troublesome for mathematics than deceptions of the senses are for physics.

Gist of Idea

Set-theory paradoxes are no worse than sense deception in physics

Source

Kurt Gödel (What is Cantor's Continuum Problem? [1964], p.271), quoted by Philip Kitcher - The Nature of Mathematical Knowledge 03.4

Book Ref

Kitcher,Philip: 'The Nature of Mathematical Knowledge' [OUP 1984], p.63

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