I went on a rant about this once when I was TAing a class of first year PHD microeconomics St Petersburg Paradox "It's not a goddamn paradox! Your model just sucks!" https://twitter.com/LucioMM1/status/1430616221347614721 …
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oh my god pickle has an entire threadhttps://twitter.com/picklesecond/status/1400128907370582018?s=19 …
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russell's paradox is "if you want the best argument for free love read Russell's writings, if you want the worst argument for free love read Russell's biography"
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Russell's paradox contradicts the pet (naive) view of sets so I don't really see how it's different from say Zeno's.
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evaluating "this statement is false" is tricky
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"this statement is false" is a paradox not quite isomorphic to Russell's paradox, although they're still pretty similar (I guess they're both self-reference paradoxes). There have to be a few others.
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Actually, there are some really freakish semi-paradoxes due to infinite set cardinality + formal logic. For instance, no language that's meant to represent real numbers can label all facts about them because it definitionally has cardinality aleph-0.
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eh semantic paradoxes aren't just a rehashing of russell's paradox, though they are spiritual kin
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hm do you have an example? not familiar with them at least under that name
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Banach-Tarski paradox is the worst offender because is both pure math and not a paradox
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