• The Berry paradox is a self-referential paradox arising from an expression like "The smallest positive integer not definable in under sixty letters" (a...
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  • paradox is a humorous paradox which arises from the attempt to classify every natural number as either "interesting" or "uninteresting". The paradox states...
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  • conflicts with the notion that something is named by calling it unnameable. Berry paradox: The phrase "the first number not nameable in under ten words" appears...
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  • smallest positive integer not definable in under sixty letters" (see Berry's paradox). There is an infinite list of English phrases (such that each phrase...
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  • While Gödel's theorem is related to the liar paradox, Chaitin's result is related to Berry's paradox. These are natural mathematical equivalents of...
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    appropriately.) The above proof uses a contradiction similar to that of the Berry paradox: "1The 2smallest 3positive 4integer 5that 6cannot 7be 8defined 9in 10fewer...
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  • the result. (B) Berry's Paradox, first mentioned in the Principia Mathematica as fifth of seven paradoxes, is credited to Mr. G. G. Berry of the Bodleian...
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  • A paradox is a logically self-contradictory statement or a statement that runs contrary to one's expectation. It is a statement that, despite apparently...
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  • The Hilbert–Bernays paradox is a distinctive paradox belonging to the family of the paradoxes of reference (like Berry's paradox). It is named after David...
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  • This article contains a discussion of paradoxes of set theory. As with most mathematical paradoxes, they generally reveal surprising and counter-intuitive...
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