Reason itself was not repudiated; it had simply lost its commanding role inasmuch as personal insights are impervious to testing.
It could be that the remark about 'the totality of subsets etc.' is an indirect reference to difficulties with the comprehension principle, but even so the principle is not repudiated explicitly in the 1904 paper, neither does Zermelo put in its place another principle for the conversion of properties to sets, which is what the Aussonderungsaxiom of the 1908 axiomatisation does.
"The only reason they're not repudiating his behavior, his threat to our democracy, our decency, our foundation is just because of political consequences".
At the end of the day, he is not repudiating a fiscal contract, and is unlikely to push outsize spending increases that would invite financial markets to attack France the way they have recently in Spain.
In a letter to the Corriere della Sera newspaper in May, he made it clear he was not repudiating his family but admitted that he wanted to lead a clean life.
In celebrating "Vertigo" as the greatest film of all time, film critics are not repudiating "Kane" but, rather, extrapolating from it, ratifying the French New Wave as the crucial revolution in the history of cinema.
Reuters, for its part, is not repudiating any of its reporting.
On some versions of dialetheism (e.g. Priest 1998) the LNC is not necessarily repudiated as such, given the distinction between the denial of a proposition and the assertion of its negation.
Because what's to be done after you've been caught not repudiating things that other people deem repudiatable?
I'm not one to repudiate the modern world, but compared to upstairs, these made me a bit sad.
