Re: Another Inconvenient Truth

Michael Stemper wrote:
Please explain why a theory that gives rise to a paradox would be
interesting or useful.


Han de Bruijn wrote:
If that theory has something to do with truth, then paradoxes in the
theory are very interesting and useful, because they delineate truth.
In our "pet" case, Russell's paradox makes infinite sets "not true".

Uh, no, it makes /some/ infinite sets "not true" (paradoxical).
All of the other infinite sets continue to exist quite happily.

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