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berry paradox

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.47 in modern English

Syllables
berry -para-dox
IPA
27
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A particular self-referential paradox relating to the number of words in a descriptive phrase.

Etymology

Bertrand Russell, the first to discuss the paradox in print, attributed it to G. G. Berry (1867–1928), a junior librarian at Oxford's Bodleian library, who had suggested the more limited paradox arising from the expression "the first undefinable ordinal".

Questions

What does berry paradox mean?
A particular self-referential paradox relating to the number of words in a descriptive phrase.
Where does berry paradox come from?
Bertrand Russell, the first to discuss the paradox in print, attributed it to G. G. Berry (1867–1928), a junior librarian at Oxford's Bodleian library, who had suggested the more limited paradox arising from the expression "the first undefinable ordinal".

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