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axiom schema of abstraction en · NOUN
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The axiom schema stating that for any clearly stated condition Sx, there exists a set B whose elements are exactly those objects which satisfy Sx.
Whenever a propositional function Sx is definite for all elements of a set M, M possesses a subset whose elements are exactly those x in M for which Sx holds.
1908, Ernst Zermelo, Investigations in the Foundations of Set Theory I:
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Russell's paradox · Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory