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Full Idea
Limitation of Size has it that if a collection is the same size as a set, then it is a set. The Axiom of Replacement is characteristic of limitation of size.
Gist of Idea
Limitation of Size: if it's the same size as a set, it's a set; it uses Replacement
Source
Shaughan Lavine (Understanding the Infinite [1994], V.5)
Book Ref
Lavine,Shaughan: 'Understanding the Infinite' [Harvard 1994], p.150
15943 | Limitation of Size is not self-evident, and seems too strong [Lavine on Neumann] |
13547 | Limitation of Size is weak (Fs only collect is something the same size does) or strong (fewer Fs than objects) [Boolos, by Potter] |
18105 | Replacement enforces a 'limitation of size' test for the existence of sets [Bostock] |
17803 | Limitation of size is part of the very conception of a set [Mayberry] |
13018 | Limitation of Size is a vague intuition that over-large sets may generate paradoxes [Maddy] |
13546 | The 'limitation of size' principles say whether properties collectivise depends on the number of objects [Potter] |
15933 | Limitation of Size: if it's the same size as a set, it's a set; it uses Replacement [Lavine] |
23625 | Limitation of Size justifies Replacement, but then has to appropriate Power Set [Hossack] |