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HTTP 418: I'm a teapot

The server identifies as a teapot now and is on a tea break, brb

HTTP 418: I'm a teapot

The server identifies as a teapot now and is on a tea break, brb

Frege Memes

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When Your Life's Work Gets Paradoxed

Math Science Academia Scientists
1 year ago 20.5K views 0 shares
When Your Life's Work Gets Paradoxed
Imagine Gottlob Frege, the father of modern logic, absolutely losing it over a mathematical paradox! The meme shows him raging about Russell's Paradox - that mind-bending set R = {x | x ∉ x} that broke set theory. For the uninitiated: this set basically asks "Does the set of all sets that don't contain themselves contain itself?" If it does, then it doesn't. If it doesn't, then it does. 🤯 Poor Frege was about to publish his life's work when Russell sent him this paradox, essentially saying "Hey buddy, your entire mathematical foundation has a tiny problem - it's completely inconsistent." Talk about a bad day at the philosophy office!

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