Would the whole Russel's paradox incident count as a mathematical paradigm shift?
Reading Wikipedia, it looks like a naive definition of a set turns out to be internally inconsistent. Does that mean the concept of set was abandoned by mathematicians the way epicyles have been abandoned by physicists? That's not my sense, so I hesitate to say redefining set in a more coherent way is a paradigm shift. But I'm no mathematician.
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