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Liar's paradox and Russell's paradox
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Quine, W.V., "New foundations for mathematical logic", American Mathematical Monthly, February 1937. Google

Other Reference

Quine, W.V., From A Logical Point of View, Cambridge:
Harvard University Press, 1980, 2nd edition, revised, p. 80-94 with supplementary remarks 94-101

Quotations
89 ;;Quote: principle of abstraction--given any condition, there is a class of those members satisfying the condition
89+;;Quote: abstraction leads to Russell's paradox, (.thereExists.x)((x.in.x).equiv. ~(x.in.x))
89+;;Quote: Russell's theory of types avoids Russell's paradox by stratified formulas; e.g., .in. only occurs in contexts of the form n .in. n+1
92 ;;Quote: avoid Russell's paradox by restricting abstraction to stratified conditions that do not reference the abstract class
92+;;Quote: avoid Russell's paradox by separate rules for class existence and elementhood

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