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<p>In <a href="page.php?w=mathematics">mathematics</a>, <a href="page.php?w=logic">logic</a> and <a href="page.php?w=philosophy_of_mathematics">philosophy of mathematics</a>, something that is <b>impredicative</b> is a <a href="page.php?w=self_reference">self-referencing</a> <a href="page.php?w=definition">definition</a>. Roughly speaking, a definition is impredicative if it invokes (mentions or quantifies over) the set being defined, or (more commonly) another set that contains the thing being defined. There is no generally accepted precise definition</p><p>
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