Single Idea 10565

[catalogued under 4. Formal Logic / F. Set Theory ST / 5. Conceptions of Set / e. Iterative sets]

Full Idea

There is no stage at which we can take all the sets to have been generated, since the set of all those sets which have been generated at a given stage will itself give us something new.

Gist of Idea

There is no stage at which we can take all the sets to have been generated

Source

Kit Fine (Replies on 'Limits of Abstraction' [2005], 1)

Book Reference

-: 'Philosophical Studies' [-], p.372

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