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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
8 months ago 13.5K 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 โˆ‰ 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. ๐Ÿคฏ 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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