>Pat and Chris,
>
>1901 is hardly "early".
>
>CM>> Russell sent his fateful letter to Frege informing him
> >> of the paradox in the Grundgesetze der Arithmetik in 1902;
> >> Padoa published his first paper on the theory of definitions
> >> (which included a notion of non-creativity) in 1901.
>
>PH> Ah, I stand corrected. Thanks. I am amazed that it was
> > possible to even think of these ideas that early.
>
>The ancient Greeks, among others, thought about, analyzed,
>and debated paradoxes very seriously. Epimenides the Cretan... (01)
Of course. I was referring to the notion of 'creativity' in
definitions, and the idea of independence of axioms, both of which
seem now to be almost always described using Tarski's 1940 model
theory terminology. (02)
Pat
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