Concept

Subset

Overview

set whose elements are all contained in another set

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

Philosophers who discussed Subset

• Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
• Alfred Tarski

Related ideas

• Isomorphism
• If and only if
• Transfinite number
• Rational number
• Reflexive relation
• Real number
• Natural number
• Intersection (set theory)
• Partially ordered set
• Power set
• Set (mathematics)
• Set theory
• Boolean algebra (structure)
• McGraw Hill Education
• Union (set theory)
• Cardinal number
• Cardinality
• Element of a set
• Empty set

Place in the tradition

Part of Inference.

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