Bertrand Russell’s Paradox Explained

Bertrand Russell’s Paradox Explained

How did Bertrand Russell’s paradox shake the foundations of mathematics and logic?
Bertrand Russell, one of the most influential mathematicians, logicians, and philosophers of the 20th century, gives his name to one of the most famous and influential logical paradoxes of the modern period. Whereas some of the ancient paradoxes, most famously those developed by Zeno, are concerned with problems of logic or reasoning as such, Russell’s paradox is a problem for a more limited set of theories in logic, in particular those which are known as ‘naïve set theories’. In this article, we will explore this paradox, the historical context in which it appeared and its consequences on philosophy and logic.

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[russellbertrand]

This is oscillating logic. No one said logic must be time independent.

[obvNPC]

omg this video was so helpfull and your cutting skills blew my mind 🥶🥶🤙🤙

[algee]

Semantic "paradoxes" don't count.

[benchapple]

The whole field of 'philosophy' is nonsense. A lot of idiotic academics discussing how many angels can sit on a pin, or similar.
Zeno's paradox which boils down to 1/2 + 1/4 + 1/8... etc. is infinite and thus a man cannot cross a room is plainly stupid. A man can cross a room! We know this. It's the same as saying "movement is impossible". They simply won't accept 'proof by contradiction' whereby their idea that an infinite series cannot sum to a finite amount is false.
Philosophy was torpedoed, blown out of the water and sunk by Cantor and Godel in 1900. If you check 'Google' you'll find that they say it was in 1930- it wasn't. Then it was brought into the real world by Turing.