Sethood

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The state of being a set. uncountable

    "William Van Ormen Quine (1969), Set Theory and Its Logic, →ISBN, page 302: “In the first edition I relativized the sethood condition insufficiently, failing to restrict the bound variables to sets”"

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"William Van Ormen Quine (1969), Set Theory and Its Logic, →ISBN, page 302: “In the first edition I relativized the sethood condition insufficiently, failing to restrict the bound variables to sets”"

Etymology

From set + -hood.

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