Article ID: CBB000650510

Maimónides y la paradoja de Burali-Forti (2004)

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Four hundred years ago one of the greatest thinkers in the Middle Ages died, the universal Maimonides from Cordoba. Besides the influence exerted in the Christian thinkers, he also had influence for a long time due to hisway of exposition. In this work we show his thought is included in some of the paradoxes which emerge with the construction, by Cantor, of Set Theory. Especially the Burali-Forti's antinomy, which is closely related with the definition of undesignated bodies and the idea of the infinity, infinity in act, according to Cantor, like the pure intelligence, abstract body which, for Maimonides, contains itself like God.

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Description On the way that the thought of Maimonides is linked to some of the paradoxes in set theory.


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Authors & Contributors
Tapp, Christian
Moore, Gregory H.
Grattan-Guinness, Ivor
Ferreirós, José
Seidengart, Jean
Seeskin, Kenneth
Concepts
Set theory
Mathematics
Infinity
Philosophy
God
Logic
Time Periods
19th century
Medieval
20th century, early
20th century
Early modern
Modern
Places
Spain
Germany
China
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