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Russell’s Paradox as Ecological Proxy

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In treating briefly of Russell’s Paradox, we come upon the anthropic breakdown into logical types. Their mathematical notations initiate suggestion that Homo sapiens, certainly in recent generations, have become so irrationally destructive as to render a most fitting paradoxical category in which we, alone, are the inhabitants of that unique logical type—without any ameliorative endpoint.

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  • Thomas Bayes
  • Russell’s Paradox
  • Georg Cantor
  • Parmenides
  • EPR paradox
  • Einstein

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    See https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/russell-paradox/Copyright 2016 by Andrew David Irvine and Harry Deutsch.

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    See “Can Quantum Mechanical Description of Physical Reality Be Considered Complete?” by Albert Einstein, Boris Podolsky and Nathan Rosen, Physical Review. 47 (10): 777–780, Bibcode: 1935PhRv…47..777E; doi:10.1103/PhysRev.47.777. See also John S. Bell, “On the Einstein Podolsky Rosen Paradeox,” Physics, 1 (3): 195–200, doi:10.1103/PhysicsPhysiqueFizika.1.195, November 4, 1964. See also, Bohm, D. (1952). “A Suggested Interpretation of the Quantum Theory in Terms of “Hidden” Variables. I”. Physical Review. 85 (2): 166. Bibcode:1952PhRv...85..166B. doi:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRev.85.166

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    ibid. Einstein, Podolsky and Rosen, 1935.

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    For an excellent description of the EPR paradox as a thought experiment (gedankenexperiment) and its relation to Einstein’s Theory of Relativity, see“EPR Paradox in Physics,” by Andrew Zimmerman Jones, ThoughtCo., July 3, 2019, https://www.thoughtco.com/epr-paradox-in-physics-2699186, Accessed July 27, 2020.

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Tobias, M.C., Morrison, J.G. (2021). Russell’s Paradox as Ecological Proxy. In: On the Nature of Ecological Paradox. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-64526-7_14

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