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title: "well-founded"
source: https://www.jemoka.com/posts/kbhwell_founded/
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in set theory, well-founded means&hellip;
there&rsquo;s no set of all sets instead, there&rsquo;s an infinite hierarchy of stratified sets &ldquo;small&rdquo; sets at stratum \(0\) the set of all stratum \(0\) sets is a stratum \(1\) set the set of all stratum \(1\) sets is a stratum \(2\) set &hellip;
