Concept

Partially ordered set

Overview

set ordered by a transitive, antisymmetric, and reflexive binary relation

Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).

Philosophers who discussed Partially ordered set

• Alfred Tarski

Related ideas

• General relativity
• Integer
• Mathematics
• Geometry
• Reflexive relation
• Real number
• Natural number
• Ordered pair
• Power set
• Set (mathematics)
• Special relativity
• Subset
• Morphism
• Total order
• Topological space
• Singleton (mathematics)
• Infimum and supremum
• Computer science
• Dover Publications
• Equivalence relation
• Empty set
• Function composition
• Lattice (order)

Place in the tradition

Part of First-order logic.

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