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sethood

sethood noun: the state of being a set.

Noun

sethood (uncountable)

  1. The state of being a set.
    • William Van Ormen Quine (1969), Set Theory and Its Logic, →ISBN, page 302: “In the first edition I relativized the sethood condition insufficiently, failing to restrict the bound variables to sets”
    • John Bigelow and Robert Pargetter (1990), Science and Necessity, →ISBN, page 368: “In fact, this can be used as a necessary condition for sethood: a universal is a set only if any given thing instantiates it either in all possible worlds or in none.”

Origin of sethood

From set + -hood.

Questions about sethood

What does sethood mean?
Sethood means the state of being a set.
What part of speech is sethood?
Sethood is a noun.

Words near sethood in the dictionary

  1. Sethians
  2. Sethic
  3. Sethis
  4. Sethite
  5. Sethites
  6. sethood
  7. sethoxydim
  8. SETI
  9. Setian
  10. Setianism
  11. Setians

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