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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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