Definition By Indicator Functions
Let be a class defined by an indicator function
- .
Then is called a singleton if and only if, for all x ∈ X,
for some y ∈ X.
Traditionally, this definition was introduced by Whitehead and Russell along with the definition of the natural number 1, as
- , where .
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