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Recall that there is no order imposed on the members of a set. We can, however, use ordinary sets to define an ordered pair, written 〈a, b〉 for example, in which a is considered the first member and b is the second member of the pair. The definition is as follows:
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Partee, B.H., Ter Meulen, A., Wall, R.E. (1993). Relations and Functions. In: Mathematical Methods in Linguistics. Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy, vol 30. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2213-6_2
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