13 ideas
21563 | The 'no classes' theory says the propositions just refer to the members [Russell] |
11064 | Classes can be reduced to propositional functions [Russell, by Hanna] |
21565 | Richard's puzzle uses the notion of 'definition' - but that cannot be defined [Russell] |
6407 | The class of classes which lack self-membership leads to a contradiction [Russell, by Grayling] |
21564 | Vicious Circle: what involves ALL must not be one of those ALL [Russell] |
10418 | Type theory seems an extreme reaction, since self-exemplification is often innocuous [Swoyer on Russell] |
10047 | Russell's improvements blocked mathematics as well as paradoxes, and needed further axioms [Russell, by Musgrave] |
23478 | Type theory means that features shared by different levels cannot be expressed [Morris,M on Russell] |
21718 | Ramified types can be defended as a system of intensional logic, with a 'no class' view of sets [Russell, by Linsky,B] |
18126 | A set does not exist unless at least one of its specifications is predicative [Russell, by Bostock] |
18128 | Russell is a conceptualist here, saying some abstracta only exist because definitions create them [Russell, by Bostock] |
18124 | Vicious Circle says if it is expressed using the whole collection, it can't be in the collection [Russell, by Bostock] |
12708 | The soul is not a substance but a substantial form, the first active faculty [Leibniz] |