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| | SetTheory - PineWiki |
 | | In reading the statement of the axiom, you should think of x as the set we are taking a union over, y as the union ∪x, z as some element that might or might not be in y, and q as an element of x that contains z and thus puts z in the union. |
 | | This is an "axiom schema" instead of an axiom, because it defines an infinite family of axioms, one for each choice of P. Naive set theory adopts the simpler approach of getting rid of the parent set x, and allowing you to define a set { x |
 | | Finally, we have one final axiom, which is generally accepted by mathematicians because it's convenient but is in a very real sense optional, in that the rest of the axioms are consistent with either it or its negation. |
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