Proposition: Equivalent Notions of Ordinals

The following definitions are equivalent:

  1. $X$ is an ordinal.
  2. $X$ is a transitive set and all elements $w\in X$ are transitive sets.
  3. $X$ is a transitive set and all elements $w\in X$ are transitive sets.

Proofs: 1

Definitions: 1
Proofs: 2 3 4
Propositions: 5


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