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Russell's paradox in American English
noun: a paradox of set theory in which an object is defined in terms of a class of objects that contains the object being defined, resulting in a logical contradiction

Russell's paradox in British English
noun: the paradox discovered by Bertrand Russell in the work of Gottlob Frege, that the class of all classes that are not members of themselves is a member of itself only if it is not, and is not only if it is. This undermines the notion of an all-inclusive uni

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