Full Idea
There is no 'structure of all structures', just as there is no set of all sets.
Gist of Idea
There is no 'structure of all structures', just as there is no set of all sets
Source
Stewart Shapiro (Philosophy of Mathematics [1997], 3.4)
Book Reference
Shapiro,Stewart: 'Philosophy of Mathematics:structure and ontology' [OUP 1997], p.95
A Reaction
If one cannot abstract from all the structures to a higher level, why should Shapiro have abstracted from the systems/models to get the over-arching structures?