Re: Questioning the defintions of set and element.
- From: Martin Wanvik <martinw@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 01 May 2008 09:03:12 EDT
Hi, most definitions of element and set I have come
across, say something
like,
An element is any object of our perception or of our
thought.
A set is a collection of unique elements.
So whats a collection?
Wolfram says it's a multiset.
Wiki says it's a multiset.
So whats a multiset?
[...]
You might find the following wikipedia articles helpful:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naive_set_theory
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axiomatic_set_theory
-- Martin Wanvik
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