Full Idea
We might reduce sets to ordinal numbers, thereby reversing the standard set-theoretical reduction of ordinals to sets.
Gist of Idea
Maybe we reduce sets to ordinals, rather than the other way round
Source
Keith Hossack (Plurals and Complexes [2000], 10)
Book Reference
-: 'British Soc for the Philosophy of Science' [-], p.436
A Reaction
He has demonstrated that there are as many ordinals as there are sets.
Related Idea
Idea 9906 If ordinal numbers are 'reducible to' some set-theory, then which is which? [Benacerraf]