I loved Russell's Paradox! And I thought Cantor's Diagonal argument was actually amazingly clever. Not sure my philosophy students appreciated me making them study them though.
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I loved Russell's Paradox! And I thought Cantor's Diagonal argument was actually amazingly clever. Not sure my philosophy students appreciated me making them study them though.
Paradoxes are hard to grasp naturally. It takes hours to exit this mental dissonance before one realizes what's wrong.