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[104] observed that it is not possible to regard the collection of all
types as a type itself. Let Type be this collection of all types. So
Type is not an element of Type. Russell suggested schemes
for layering or stratifyingstratification these ``inexhaustible
concepts'' like Type or Proposition or Set. The
idea is to introduce notions of types of various levels. In our theory
these levels are indicated by level indexes such as Typei.
They will be defined later.
James Wallis
1999-09-17