On Wed, Jun 16, 2021 at 10:41:18PM -0400, Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor wrote: > >>>> Just to show that you should never say never: > >>> Hey, that's cheating :-) > >> Impredicativity is borderline, indeed. > > Impredicativity, what's that, recursion? > > (with-lecture-mode :-) > Kind of, except the cycle is not "definition refers to itself" (the > "traditional" form of recursion) but rather "definition can be applied > to itself" as in the first sentence quoted above ;-) ...of that kind "All type theorists shave those philosophers who don't shave themselves" or some such ;-) Cheers - t