andrel wrote:

> No actually I think you have no idea what astonishment you create when 
> you admit you have never heard of Russell or his profound impact on 
> mathematics and logic.

Right. Well the history of... well anything really... isn't my strong point.

FWIW, I saw some pretty astonished faces when I admitted that I 
mistakenly thought that Brazil is in Europe. (I now realise quite how 
wrong I in fact was...)

> What makes it even more unbelievable is that you are an Englishman (or 
> so you claim). The English tend to be rather proud of their own history 
> (yes, he was English).

What can I say? I'm not very patriotic. (I know we suck at a number of 
popular sports, despite the fact that we personally invented them...)

>> Who Russell is and what the paradox is about is rather orthoganol to 
>> the point I was actually trying to make...
>>
> Yes, but this is off-topic, we are allowed to drift here.

OK, you win. ;-)

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