Packet 7: Bonus 4

Bertrand Russell named this paradox for a junior librarian at Oxford. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this self-referential paradox. The denotation “the smallest positive integer not definable in under 60 letters” creates this paradox since that phrase denotes a unique number but consists of only 57 letters.
ANSWER: Berry paradox [or Berry’s paradox; accept Richard’s paradox]
[10e] Russell named the Berry paradox in this treatise on the foundations of mathematics, which he co-wrote with Alfred North Whitehead.
ANSWER: Principia Mathematica
[10m] To challenge the idea that all logical paradoxes are self-referential, the Yablo paradox posits a string of sentences with this property, all in the form “all of the subsequent sentences are false.” Truth values comprise a continuous range in [this property]-valued logic.
ANSWER: infinite [or infinity or infinitely-long; accept infinite-valued logic or infinitely-many-valued logic; prompt on many-valued logic]
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CambridgeWashU010010E
Chicago BBrown010010E
Columbia AIndiana010010E
CornellNorthwestern B010010E
GeorgetownNorth Carolina010010E
Georgia Tech BMichigan010010E
Georgia Tech CMinnesota010010E
Illinois AToronto B010010E
Illinois BMaryland B010010E
Johns HopkinsBruin010010E
Maryland AUC Berkeley B010010E
Northwestern AToronto A010010E
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PittsburghVanderbilt010010E
RutgersColumbia B010010E
Stanford ANYU A010010E
Stanford BNYU B010010E
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TexasUCLA010010E
UC Berkeley AChicago A010010E
VirginiaGeorgia Tech A010010E
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