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(set theory) A mathematical object which is not a set but which can be an element of a set..
1996, Scientific Books staff (translators), Yuri L. Ershov, Definability and Computability, Scientific Books, page viii, The introduction of urelements would seem to be a technical improvement; however, now we know that just such an extension of the notion of the admissible set led to the universal theory of computability based on the notion of definability by formulas with (in a broad sense) effective semantics.
There may be no urelements; as we shall see, we can still build plenty of sets in this case. At stage 0 we can always build the empty set. If there are no urelements, this is the only set we can build. If there is one urelement, a, we can build the sets #92;empty and #92;#123;a#92;#125;. If there are two urelements, a and b, the possible sets are #92;#123;a#92;#125;, #92;#123;b#92;#125;, and #92;#123;a,b#92;#125;; and so on if there are more urelements. At stage 1, we can build any set containing urelements or sets built at stage 0; that is, any set whose members are already available at the beginning of stage 1. If there are no urelements, we can build #92;empty and #92;#123;#92;empty#92;#125;.
Let #92;mathcal#123;L#125;#92;alpha#95;#92;in be a version of the language of set-theory with urelements in which each occurrence of a quantifier is restricted by some V#95;#92;beta (#92;betalt;#92;alpha).
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Urelement means (set theory) A mathematical object which is not a set but which can be an element of a set..
Common synonyms include atom.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
1996, Scientific Books staff (translators), Yuri L. Ershov, Definability and Computability, Scientific Books, page viii, The introduction of urelements would seem to be a technical improvement; however, now we know that just such an extension of the notion of the admissible set led to the universal theory of computability based on the notion of definability by formulas with (in a broad sense) effective semantics.
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