Berry’s paradox
Hello Rabbi.
I started reading the first book in the trilogy. And it’s hard.
 The rabbi probably knows the following sentence.
 “The smallest whole number that cannot be expressed in fewer than twenty words”
 For example, to pronounce 1, 100, 20, 100000, only one word is enough (one, one hundred, twenty, one million). On the other hand, 123 requires three words: “one hundred twenty-one.”
 It can be assumed that there are numbers that require more than twenty words to express.
 But in every group of integers there is a smallest number among them, and therefore the above expression, which is less than twenty words long, expresses a number that cannot be expressed in less than twenty words. This is a contradiction.   
Therefore, the phrase “which cannot be expressed in less than twenty words” is meaningless or ill-defined.
And it seems to me that the phrase “something unimaginably great” is also meaningless, and therefore that priest’s argument is meaningless.
I would be happy to explain.
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