Philosophical concepts that influenced the set theories discovered by Bertrand Russell
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https://doi.org/10.24310/NATyLIB.2021.vi15.12491Keywords:
Russell, Cantor, Kant, Hegel, Leibniz, Saint Anselm, A priori judgements, Synthetic judgements, Logicism, Potential infinity, Actual infinityAbstract
In this paper I examine some of Bertrand Russell's philosophical presuppositions underlying his discovery of paradoxes in Cantor's set theory: Kant's a priori and synthetic judgments, Leibniz's logicism, the Hegelian worldview, St. Anselm's ontological argument.
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