Which outcome occurs when a formal set theory attempts to model collections containing themselves?

💡 Explanation

Russell’s Paradox arises from unrestricted comprehension in naive set theory, because this allows sets to be defined that contain themselves, leading to a contradiction; therefore, the theory becomes logically inconsistent, rather than more efficient or trivially consistent.

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