[FOM] Predicativism and natural numbers

Giovanni Lagnese lagnese at ngi.it
Tue Jan 3 13:33:43 EST 2006


Charles Silver wrote:

> the notion of "set" is taken as primitive and
> thus would not be defined at all.

Yes, but the concept of set is impredicative.
Otherwise you may "take as primitive" also the notion of powerset!

GL



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