Symmetry as a Criterion for Comprehension Motivating Quine’s ‘New Foundations’

Studia Logica 88 (2):195-213 (2008)
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A common objection to Quine's set theory "New Foundations" is that it is inadequately motivated because the restriction on comprehension which appears to avert paradox is a syntactical trick. We present a semantic criterion for determining whether a class is a set which motivates NF.

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