Burali–Forti paradox

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The Burali–Forti paradox refers to the theorem that there is no set containing all von Neumann ordinals. Essentially, if there were such a set, then it would itself be a von Neumann ordinal, contradicting well-foundedness (or more directly the axiom of regularity).

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