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Created page with "Absolute infinity was a concept originally defined by Georg Cantor, the founder of set theory. He denoted it \(\tav\) and defined it as a number greater than everything else, so large that any property it could have would already be satisfied by something smaller. This is clearly not well-defined, since "being absolute infinity" is a property that it and only it has - this is similar to Berry's paradox. However, this idea paved the way for Reflection principle|reflecti..."
RhubarbJayde (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Absolute infinity was a concept originally defined by Georg Cantor, the founder of set theory. He denoted it \(\tav\) and defined it as a number greater than everything else, so large that any property it could have would already be satisfied by something smaller. This is clearly not well-defined, since "being absolute infinity" is a property that it and only it has - this is similar to Berry's paradox. However, this idea paved the way for Reflection principle|reflecti...") |
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