Curry's paradox

English

Etymology

Named after the logician Haskell Curry.

Proper noun

Curry 's paradox

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.

Synonyms

Löb's paradox

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