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In general his complaints regarding logic are incoherent. A function is not a messy weird object in mathematics; it's a possibly infinite set of ordered pairs where there are no duplicates of the first element of the ordered pair. That's it all it is, formally. Or "class" is a concept that has highly specific meaning in NBG theory—in ZFC it's not a formal distinction and so there's a transformation that must be obeyed where "x \in Class" means "{ x | x satisfies class definition}"; which due to Foundation must be the subset of some other, preexisting, class (and thus is Russell's paradox defeated). Almost all of these things exist and are present and are extremely well defined in the theory, he just doesn't like them for some reason.


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