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Not following the bottom line, but sure. I think getting worried over the details misses the point. I think you'd like this version better:

Let A be the set of all positive integers that can be defined in under 100 words. Since there are only finitely many of these, there must be a smallest positive integer n that does not belong to A. But haven't I just defined n in under 100 words?

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YODL 6mo ago

From here, where you can read a bit more

https://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~wtg10/richardsparadox.html

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