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 | | The sets {a,b}, {a,c}, and {b,c} can be "fused" into the set {a,b,c} which is the smallest set which has all of them as "parts" (subsets), but the "fusion" of {a,b} and {a,c} gives the same result. |
 | | My suggestion is that the role of the singleton construction is _semantic_; a singleton is a kind of _name_ for its element; a way of putting it which is perhaps better is that the singleton is a _token_ used to replace its element in the construction of sets. |
 | | This formulation of the notion of "set" avoids (and perhaps illuminates) Russell's paradox: Let R be the "set of all sets which are not elements of themselves". |
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