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Russell's Paradox
- jacques_chester 16y agoI prefer the example given in Logicomix. Some books refer to themselves. Most do not. Suppose I publish a book which is an index of books that do not refer to themselves. Question: does that index refer to itself?
- derrida 16y agoThis isn't from Logicomix. Bertrand Russell himself originally sketched out the problem in terms of books and index books. I forget which paper, but it is in the complete collected papers.
- jacques_chester 16y agoOK -- the example recreated in Logicomix :) (Now that you mention it, I think Russell talked about index cards, which wouldn't really make sense to more modern readers)