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Grelling–Nelson paradox — The Grelling–Nelson paradox is a semantic self referential paradox formulated in 1908 by Kurt Grelling and Leonard Nelson and sometimes mistakenly attributed to the German philosopher and mathematician Hermann Weyl. It is thus occasionally called … Wikipedia
Paradox — For other uses, see Paradox (disambiguation). Further information: List of paradoxes A paradox is a seemingly true statement or group of statements that lead to a contradiction or a situation which seems to defy logic or intuition. Typically,… … Wikipedia
Paradox — Ein Paradoxon oder Paradox (altgriechisch παράδοξον, von παρα , para – gegen und δόξα, dóxa – Meinung, Ansicht), auch Paradoxie (παραδοξία) und in der Mehrzahl Paradoxa g … Deutsch Wikipedia
Kurt Grelling — Infobox Philosopher region = Western Philosophy era = 20th century philosophy color = #B0C4DE name = Otto Neurath birth = birth date|1886|03|02 death = death date|1942|09| school tradition = Analytic main interests = Philosophy of science, Logic… … Wikipedia
Russell's paradox — Part of the foundations of mathematics, Russell s paradox (also known as Russell s antinomy), discovered by Bertrand Russell in 1901, showed that the naive set theory of Frege leads to a contradiction.It might be assumed that, for any formal… … Wikipedia
Interesting number paradox — The interesting number paradox is a semi humorous paradox that arises from attempting to classify numbers as interesting or dull . The paradox states that all numbers are interesting. The proof is by contradiction: if there were uninteresting… … Wikipedia
Richard's paradox — is a fallacious paradox of mathematical mapping first described by the French mathematician Jules Richard in 1905. Today, it is ordinarily used in order to show the importance of carefully distinguishing between mathematics and metamathematics.… … Wikipedia
heterologicality, paradox of — See Grelling s paradox … Philosophy dictionary
Quine's paradox — is a paradox concerning truth values, attributed to W.V.O. Quine. It is related to the liar paradox as a problem, and it purports to show that a sentence can be paradoxical even if it is not self referring and does not use demonstratives or… … Wikipedia
Russell Paradox — Die Russellsche Antinomie ist ein von Bertrand Russell und Ernst Zermelo entdecktes Paradoxon der Naiven Mengenlehre, das Russell 1903 publizierte und daher seinen Namen trägt. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 Begriff und Problematik 2 Geschichte und… … Deutsch Wikipedia
