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| ``Re: About Empty Set''
by yark on 2004-06-12 08:02:38 |
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| slayerchange wrote:
> What if X is empty set. If R well-orders X ,
> then any subset of emptyset is again an emptyset ,
Yes.
> and we get a contradiction .
No.
It's hard to say what you are doing wrong, since you don't give any reasoning. Possibly you are confused by the fact that the condition "every nonempty subset of X has a least element" is vacuously true if X is empty. |
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