Russell’s Great... Oversights

Bertrand Russell is one of the most famous mathematicians, logicians and philosophers of the 20th Century, but...

2003 May 24 (b)

When Russell saw the work of Frege (on axiomatizing Set Theory) with its Axiom of Abstraction, he soon put forward Russell’s Paradox, a paradox of self-membership and non-self-membership that is inherent in that same Axiom of Abstraction. Frege considered it fatal to his Set Theory. But... Russell (and mathematicians since) overlooked potentially fatal flaws in the concepts of definition and construction of entities, truly fatal if overlooked.

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