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Beppo Levi’s Analysis of the Paradoxes

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This paper presents and comments the content of a note by Beppo Levi on logical paradoxes. Though the existence of this contribution is known, very little analysis of it is available in the literature. I put the emphasis on Levi’s usage of “elementation procedures” for solving the set-theoretical paradoxes, which is the most original part of Levi’s approach to the topic.

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Bruni, R. Beppo Levi’s Analysis of the Paradoxes. Log. Univers. 7, 211–231 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11787-012-0072-7

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