Prof. Palma: the Russellian set (which gave so much grief to Frege's V ax) is the set of all set which aren't members of themselves. Contradiction follows.
An aside: are there different kinds of contradiction? Contradiction used here postulates an infinite regress. Is this the same *kind* of contradiction one would find in division by zero? Or the square-root of negative one? After all, i is very useful. Do philosophers distinguish degrees of contradiction? Where does aporia fit in?
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