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Ideas for Hermarchus, Gottlob Frege and David Lewis
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4. Formal Logic / F. Set Theory ST / 1. Set Theory
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Frege did not think of himself as working with sets [Frege, by Hart,WD]
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Sets are mereological sums of the singletons of their members [Lewis, by Armstrong]
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Mathematics reduces to set theory, which reduces, with some mereology, to the singleton function [Lewis]
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We can build set theory on singletons: classes are then fusions of subclasses, membership is the singleton [Lewis]
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4. Formal Logic / F. Set Theory ST / 2. Mechanics of Set Theory / b. Terminology of ST
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Classes divide into subclasses in many ways, but into members in only one way [Lewis]
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A subclass of a subclass is itself a subclass; a member of a member is not in general a member [Lewis]
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4. Formal Logic / F. Set Theory ST / 3. Types of Set / b. Empty (Null) Set
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The null set is only defensible if it is the extension of an empty concept [Frege, by Burge]
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It is because a concept can be empty that there is such a thing as the empty class [Frege, by Dummett]
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The null set is indefensible, because it collects nothing [Frege, by Burge]
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A class is an aggregate of objects; if you destroy them, you destroy the class; there is no empty class [Frege]
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We can accept the null set, but there is no null class of anything [Lewis]
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There are four main reasons for asserting that there is an empty set [Lewis]
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We needn't accept this speck of nothingness, this black hole in the fabric of Reality! [Lewis]
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We can accept the null set, but not a null class, a class lacking members [Lewis]
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The null set plays the role of last resort, for class abstracts and for existence [Lewis]
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The null set is not a little speck of sheer nothingness, a black hole in Reality [Lewis]
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4. Formal Logic / F. Set Theory ST / 3. Types of Set / c. Unit (Singleton) Sets
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We can replace the membership relation with the member-singleton relation (plus mereology) [Lewis]
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If we don't understand the singleton, then we don't understand classes [Lewis]
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If singleton membership is external, why is an object a member of one rather than another? [Lewis]
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Maybe singletons have a structure, of a thing and a lasso? [Lewis]
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What on earth is the relationship between a singleton and an element? [Lewis]
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Are all singletons exact intrinsic duplicates? [Lewis]
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4. Formal Logic / F. Set Theory ST / 3. Types of Set / e. Equivalence classes
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We can introduce new objects, as equivalence classes of objects already known [Frege, by Dummett]
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Frege introduced the standard device, of defining logical objects with equivalence classes [Frege, by Dummett]
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4. Formal Logic / F. Set Theory ST / 4. Axioms for Sets / a. Axioms for sets
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Set theory has some unofficial axioms, generalisations about how to understand it [Lewis]
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Set theory reduces to a mereological theory with singletons as the only atoms [Lewis, by MacBride]
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4. Formal Logic / F. Set Theory ST / 4. Axioms for Sets / f. Axiom of Infinity V
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Frege, unlike Russell, has infinite individuals because numbers are individuals [Frege, by Bostock]
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4. Formal Logic / F. Set Theory ST / 5. Conceptions of Set / a. Sets as existing
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If singletons are where their members are, then so are all sets [Lewis]
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A huge part of Reality is only accepted as existing if you have accepted set theory [Lewis]
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Set theory isn't innocent; it generates infinities from a single thing; but mathematics needs it [Lewis]
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4. Formal Logic / F. Set Theory ST / 5. Conceptions of Set / c. Logical sets
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A class is, for Frege, the extension of a concept [Frege, by Dummett]
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Frege proposed a realist concept of a set, as the extension of a predicate or concept or function [Frege, by Benardete,JA]
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