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Full Idea
The 'limitation of size' is a vague intuition, based on the idea that being too large may generate the paradoxes.
Gist of Idea
Limitation of Size is a vague intuition that over-large sets may generate paradoxes
Source
Penelope Maddy (Believing the Axioms I [1988], §1.3)
Book Ref
-: 'Journal of Symbolic Logic' [-], p.485
A Reaction
This is an intriguing idea to be found right at the centre of what is supposed to be an incredibly rigorous system.