Principle proposed by Poincaré and Russell in order to solve the logical and semantic paradoxes. It would ban any collection (set) containing members that can only be defined by means of the collection taken as a whole. It is effectively a ban on impredicative definitions.
vicious circle principle
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- impredicative definition (philosophy)
- vicious circle (philosophy)
- theory of types (philosophy)
- Impredicativity
- Entscheidungsproblem
- List of philosophy topics (R-Z)
- Intuitionism
- Halting problem
- Proof of impossibility
