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8. Modes of Existence / A. Relations / 4. Formal Relations / c. Ancestral relation

22284	'Greater than', which is the ancestral of 'successor', strictly orders the natural numbers [Potter]
	Full Idea: From the successor function we can deduce its ancestral, the 'greater than' relation, which is a strict total ordering of the natural numbers. (Frege did not mention this, but Dedekind worked it out, when expounding definition by recursion).
	From: Michael Potter (The Rise of Analytic Philosophy 1879-1930 [2020], 07 'Def')
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