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01-11-2006, 05:50 PM

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Originally Posted by dleviwing
Guille;
Sub does not need to read books to acquire knowledge. Only we mere mortals need to do that.
A set that is defined to contain everything must contain itself. An empty set contains no elements and is referred to as a null set if I remember right.
again you are exactly and ironically correct dleviwing. I DON"T need to read books to acquire knowledge, because all I need is my brain. This is a good thing, because afterall, the TOE does not currently exist in any books. You should have known that! Sadly, however, I am mortal.

A set that contains everything must contain itself, I agree. Also an empty set is null, I agree. So how does it change this fact?

the solution to Russell's paradox is that the set of all sets which do not contain themselves is simply the empty set and whether the empty set contains itself or not is an irrelevant question because the empty set has no value.