Etymology

Curry's paradox

Today it means: A paradox that occurs in naive set theory or naive logics, and allows the derivation of an arbitrary sentence from a self-referring sentence and some apparently innocuous logical deduction rules. Full definition →

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The story

Named after the logician Haskell Curry.

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