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To: beebuster2000

Sorry, but a set cannot contain itself.


10 posted on 06/24/2008 5:32:27 PM PDT by Panzerlied ("We shall never surrender!")
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To: Panzerlied
Russell's paradox

32 posted on 06/24/2008 5:39:23 PM PDT by I see my hands (_8(|)
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To: Panzerlied
Sorry, but a set cannot contain itself.

I do not believe that statement is true.

For instance, the set of all sets with at least one member would have to contain itself as a member.

(As an aside: It would, however, have excluded John Wayne Bobbitt for a period of time...but now contains him once again).
102 posted on 06/24/2008 9:02:20 PM PDT by NonLinear (When seconds count, the police are only minutes away.)
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