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And that’s not counting proper nouns, such as the name of an evil ancient Egyptian deity, or foreign words, like the Korean word for the number three. By way of contrast, the number of definitions of the word “set” in this book is none. The reason for this is that in modern mathematics the notion of set is fundamental. For example, numbers can be defined in terms of sets, and this will occupy us towards the end of the book, with the object of gaining some kind of comprehension of the infinite.
“Of all the words in the English Language the one with the greatest number of meanings according to the OED is the word ‘set’.”
D. L. Johnson
Elements of Logic via Numbers and Sets
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Johnson, D.L. (1998). Sets. In: Elements of Logic via Numbers and Sets. Springer Undergraduate Mathematics Series. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0603-6_3
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