Explanation: How Functions interact with Set Operations

(related to Lemma: Behavior of Functions with Set Operations)

In the above lemma, the rules $2, 5,7$ and $8$ do not allow equality in the general case. The proof given for the lemma is simple but highly technical and it might be interesting to see a counterexample. Such a counterexample is given below.

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In the figure, a function $f:A\mapsto A$ is defined and where we set $X:=\{u\}$ and $Y:=\{w\}.$ We calculate the above rules to see that, indeed, no equality can be achieved:


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