Full Idea
It is only quite recently that the idea has emerged of deriving our conception of collections from a relation of dependence between them.
Gist of Idea
Nowadays we derive our conception of collections from the dependence between them
Source
Michael Potter (Set Theory and Its Philosophy [2004], 03.2)
Book Reference
Potter,Michael: 'Set Theory and Its Philosophy' [OUP 2004], p.37
A Reaction
This is the 'iterative' view of sets, which he traces back to Gödel's 'What is Cantor's Continuum Problem?'