On Jul 12, 2007, at 17:11 , Andrew Coppin wrote:
Felipe Almeida Lessa wrote:
On 7/12/07, Andrew Coppin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
How come the set of all sets doesn't exist?
http://www.google.com/search?q=set+of+all+sets
leads to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Set_of_all_sets which has the
answer, I think.
Ouch.
Clearly, set theory is way more complicated than people make out.
(I always thought a "set" was just a collection of objects...)
You might want to look over some of the introductory set theory stuff
on the Good Math, Bad Math blog: http://scienceblogs.com/goodmath/
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