The Elusiveness of Sets

Review of Metaphysics 24 (4):614-636 (1971)
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NOWADAYS, even schoolchildren babble about "null sets" and "singletons" and "one-one correspondences," as if they knew what they were talking about. But if they understand even less than their teachers, which seems likely, they must be using the technical jargon with only an illusion of understanding. Beginners are taught that a set having three members is a single thing, wholly constituted by its members but distinct from them. After this, the theological doctrine of the Trinity as "three in one" should be child's play.

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reprint Black, Max (1974) "The Elusiveness of sets". Journal of Symbolic Logic 39(1):170-171

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