Burali-Forti paradox (Q1010269)

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paradox demonstrating that the class of all ordinal numbers Ω cannot be a set, since if it were, it would be an ordinal, thus an element of itself, and thus less than itself, which is a contradiction
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Burali-Forti paradox
paradox demonstrating that the class of all ordinal numbers Ω cannot be a set, since if it were, it would be an ordinal, thus an element of itself, and thus less than itself, which is a contradiction

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