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Summary

The hierarchy VαV_\alpha generated from the empty set by successor power sets and unions at limit stages; with the Foundation axiom, every set has a rank and occurs at some stage.

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OrdinalCumulative hierarchy

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This is an authored directed relation from the source endpoint to the target endpoint.

Authored explanation

Ordinals index the successor and limit stages of the cumulative hierarchy, allowing the rank of a set to be stated precisely.

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A mathematical concept supplies part of the formal language, state space, representation, or analytic machinery used by a scientific or mathematical-physics concept. The source is the mathematical predecessor; this does not claim that physical content follows from mathematics alone.

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Power setCumulative hierarchy

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This is an authored directed relation from the source endpoint to the target endpoint.

Authored explanation

The successor clause Vα+1=P(Vα)V_{\alpha+1}=\mathcal P(V_\alpha) adds every subset of the preceding stage; limit stages instead take unions of all earlier stages.

How to interpret this relation type

Apply a standard functorial or canonical construction whose output is not merely a reduct of the input and is not generally an equivalent presentation of the same object.

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