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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of or pertaining to Dr. Georg Cantor, mathematical professor in the University of Halle-on-the-Saale.

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  • Sets whose sizes are concrete natural numbers are strongly cantorian.

    Quine's New Foundations Forster, Thomas 2006

  • (the set of Frege natural numbers) is cantorian, but the assertion that it is strongly cantorian implies the consistency of NF.

    Quine's New Foundations Forster, Thomas 2006

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