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  • adjective set theory Of a set, containing at least one element; not the empty set.

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Examples

  • Clearly the intersections of sex with both toothpaste and orange juice should be non-empty.

    Some things you can’t undo. 2009

  • If we can equate nothing with the empty set and something with a non-empty set, (not a trivial assumption, given that mathematics extends beyond set theory), then it is significant to note that whilst every set contains the empty set as a subset, the converse certainly isn't true.

    Archive 2009-01-01 Gordon McCabe 2009

  • If all variants of s with respect to i with non-empty subject ideas are true,

    Slices of Matisse gerard varni 2009

  • However, this resemblance is merely apparent, because empty nouns are genuine names and can always be decomposed into non-empty genuine names (e.g., "round square").

    Lvov-Warsaw School Wole&324;ski, Jan 2009

  • In a sentence of the form ˜There is at least one A™ we attribute, according to Bolzano, not a property to A itself but to [A], i.e., the idea of A, namely the property of being non-empty.

    Slices of Matisse gerard varni 2009

  • If all i-variants of a proposition s with an non-empty subject idea are true, Bolzano will say that s is universally valid with respect to i.

    Slices of Matisse gerard varni 2009

  • The ones who get hosed by the present system are those with no bargaining power and non-empty pockets.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Health Insurance and the Public Plan: Where’s The Beef? 2009

  • An inclusive or exclusive disjunction of two propositions s1 and s2 is interpreted by Bolzano as a proposition which attributes to the idea [a true proposition belonging to the collection consisting of s1 and s2] the property of being non-empty or singular, respectively (WL II, 204 f., 228 f.).

    Slices of Matisse gerard varni 2009

  • The ones who get hosed by the present system are those with no bargaining power and non-empty pockets.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Health Insurance and the Public Plan: Where’s The Beef? 2009

  • A propositional form F is universally valid iff at least one member of F is true, and every member of F with a non-empty subject idea is true; F is universally contravalid iff every member of F is false.

    Slices of Matisse gerard varni 2009

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