Berry Paradox Definition

noun

A particular self-referential paradox relating to the number of words in a descriptive phrase .

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Origin of Berry Paradox

  • Bertrand Russell, the first to discuss the paradox in print, attributed it to G. G. Berry (1867-1928), a junior librarian at Oxford's Bodleian library, who had suggested the more limited paradox arising from the expression "the first undefinable ordinal".

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