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Scott's trick

Scott's trick proper noun: a method for giving a definition of equivalence classes for equivalence relations on a proper class, relying on the axiom of regularity but not on the axiom of choice.

Proper noun

Scott's trick

  1. A method for giving a definition of equivalence classes for equivalence relations on a proper class, relying on the axiom of regularity but not on the axiom of choice.

Origin of Scott's trick

Introduced by Dana Scott in 1955.

Questions about Scott's trick

What does Scott's trick mean?
Scott's trick means a method for giving a definition of equivalence classes for equivalence relations on a proper class, relying on the axiom of regularity but not on the axiom of choice.
What part of speech is Scott's trick?
Scott's trick is a proper noun.

Words near Scott's trick in the dictionary

  1. Scott syndrome
  2. Scott topologies
  3. Scott topology
  4. Scott's Green
  5. Scott's spleenwort
  6. Scott's trick
  7. Scott-continuous
  8. Scott-open
  9. Scotten
  10. Scotter
  11. Scotti

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