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Classes as Abstract Entities and the Russell Paradox

Abstract: The implications of the theory of abstract entities which was developed in the paper with that title1 for some classical problems pertaining to classes are interesting and, I believe, important To show this I shall take my point of departure from the thesis, advanced in an earlier paper,2 that the form $$x\varepsilon k$$ construed as the logistical counterpart of x is a k (eg, x is a man) must not be confused with the same form construed as the logistical counterpart of x is a member of k-kind where “k-kind” is given a technical use as a referring expression which refers to a class, and in which it is equivalent to “the class of ks”