Timeline for Insights from disproofs after counterexamples have been given
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| Jul 12, 2018 at 17:35 | comment | added | Robert Frost | @Wojowu I think the story goes that some universal all-inclusive set would have the size of the greatest cardinal, and Russell's intuition told him this led to a contradiction. Russell's paradox was what he came up with although Cantor had already also worked out Cantor's paradox independently. I can't tell you the precise link. Either way, this then this led to the new constructions of set theory which restricted how sets can be constructed rather than permitting any definable collection to be a set. | |
| Jul 12, 2018 at 17:20 | comment | added | Wojowu | What does Russell's paradox have to do with the greatest cardinal? | |
| S Jul 12, 2018 at 16:47 | history | answered | Robert Frost | CC BY-SA 4.0 | |
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