[Haskell-cafe] Very freaky

[Steve Schafer]

On Thu, 12 Jul 2007 20:36:47 +0100, you wrote:

>How come the set of all sets doesn't exist?

In naive set theory, the existence of the set of all sets leads to a
logical paradox. Specifically, the set of all sets would have to contain
as a member the set of all sets that are not members of themselves. Look
up "Russell's Paradox" in Wikipedia.

Steve Schafer
Fenestra Technologies Corp.
http://www.fenestra.com/