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  • I conceive, I said, that the true legislator will not trouble himself with this class of enactments whether concerning laws or the constitution either in an ill-ordered or in a wellordered

    The Republic by Plato ; translated by Benjamin Jowett 2006

  • Yet another was the collecting, by royalty and the aristocracy, of the paintings of domestic interiors and kitchen still lifes by Jean Baptiste Simon Chardin, which illustrate the ambience of the wellordered bourgeois household.57

    Savoring The Past Wheaton Barbara Ketcham 1983

  • Yet another was the collecting, by royalty and the aristocracy, of the paintings of domestic interiors and kitchen still lifes by Jean Baptiste Simon Chardin, which illustrate the ambience of the wellordered bourgeois household.57

    Savoring The Past Wheaton Barbara Ketcham 1983

  • (“externally”) wellordered (no subclasses without least members) becomes a set and we have the Burali-Forti paradox

    Quine's New Foundations Forster, Thomas 2006

  • An axiom saying that all wellfounded sets are wellordered might ” for all we know ” be consistent with NF.

    Quine's New Foundations Forster, Thomas 2006

  • Specker showed that it did, though he never published his proof: the (quite different) proof in Specker [1953] is of his stronger result that NF proves that the universe cannot be wellordered (and is therefore infinite) and the first published proof is in Henson [1973a])

    Quine's New Foundations Forster, Thomas 2006

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