Ideas from 'Intros to Russell's 'Essays in Analysis'' by Douglas Lackey [1973], by Theme Structure

[found in 'Essays in Analysis' by Russell,Bertrand (ed/tr Lackey,Douglas) [George Braziller 1973,0-8076-0699-5]].

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5. Theory of Logic / L. Paradox / 5. Paradoxes in Set Theory / b. Cantor's paradox

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Sets always exceed terms, so all the sets must exceed all the sets

5. Theory of Logic / L. Paradox / 5. Paradoxes in Set Theory / c. Burali-Forti's paradox

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It seems that the ordinal number of all the ordinals must be bigger than itself