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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well the obvious candidate is the classic liar's paradox the key difference i think is that russell's paradox requires no definition of truth-in-a-model, or a truth predicate, or what have you there are also non-semantic paradoxes like richard's paradox
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i guess if you wanted to you could claim that these are all the same insofar as they all involve self-reference, but you can get strict paradox without self-reference too see:https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yablo%27s_paradox …
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