单词 | russell's paradox |
释义 | Russell's paradoxnoun Mathematics.a paradox of set theory in which an object is defined in terms of a class of objects that contains the object being defined, resulting in a logical contradiction. Origin of Russell's paradoxFirst recorded in 1920–25; first proposed by Bertrand Russell Words nearby Russell's paradoxRussborough House, Russell, Russell, Bertrand, Russell body, Russellite, Russell's paradox, Russell's sign, Russell's syndrome, Russell's viper, Russell's viper venom, Russellville Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 British Dictionary definitions for Russell's paradoxRussell's paradox nounlogic the paradox discovered by Bertrand Russell in the work of Gottlob Frege, that the class of all classes that are not members of themselves is a member of itself only if it is not, and is not only if it is. This undermines the notion of an all-inclusive universal class Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 |
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