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Single Idea 9572

[catalogued under 4. Formal Logic / F. Set Theory ST / 3. Types of Set / b. Empty (Null) Set]

Full Idea

In the Gödelian realistic view of set theory the statement that there is a null set as the assertion of the existence in the real world of a set that has no members.

Gist of Idea

Realists about sets say there exists a null set in the real world, with no members

Source

Charles Chihara (A Structural Account of Mathematics [2004], 11.6)

Book Reference

Chihara,Charles: 'A Structural Account of Mathematics' [OUP 2004], p.343


A Reaction

It seems to me obvious that such a claim is nonsense on stilts. 'In the beginning there was the null set'?