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5. Theory of Logic / L. Paradox / 4. Paradoxes in Logic / c. Berry's paradox

9638	Berry's Paradox finds a contradiction in the naming of huge numbers [Brown,JR]
	Full Idea: Berry's Paradox refers to 'the least integer not namable in fewer than nineteen syllables' - a paradox because it has just been named in eighteen syllables.
	From: James Robert Brown (Philosophy of Mathematics [1999], Ch. 5)
	A reaction: Apparently George Boolos used this quirky idea as a basis for a new and more streamlined proof of Gödel's Theorem. Don't tell me you don't find that impressive.