definitionThe axiom schema of replacement has played a significant role in developing a theory of ordinal numbers. In contrast to cardinal numbers, which serve to designate the size of a set, ordinal numbers are used to determine positions within a prescribed well-ordered sequence. Under an approach conceived by von Neumann, if A is a set, the successor A′ of A is the set...
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