“Cantor and his disciples... think they have knowledge of all sorts of further sets; their fundamental principle... comes to about the same as the axiomaticians. ...[T]his principle is unjustified and... we assert that the several paradoxes of the 'Mengenlehre' [Set theory]... have no right to exist... [I]t would have been the duty of Cantorians, immediately to reject a notion which gives rise to contradictions, because it is... not built... mathematically.”

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