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Comment author: [deleted] 23 March 2015 11:42:02PM *  2 points [-]

It is also true that the number of cardinals is greater than any cardinal, leading to Cantor's Paradox.

... Since every set is a subset of this latter class, and every cardinality is the cardinality of a set (by definition!) this intuitively means that the "cardinality" of the collection of cardinals is greater than the cardinality of any set: it is more infinite than any true infinity. This is the paradoxical nature of Cantor's "paradox".