Non-quantity
In formal logic, more precisely the set theory (in the formal ontology ), one is not quantity (Engl. Nonset) an object that no amount is. Every non-quantity is a primal element .
properties
A non-set has no elements. | |
The empty set is not a non-set . |
Examples
- physical objects (e.g .: cup )
- Water , gases
- Processes (e.g .: 100-meter run, course of illness)
- Symbols
literature
- James Van Aken: Axioms for the Set-Theoretic Hierarchy , in: Journal of Symbolic Logic, Vol. 51, No. 4: 992-1004 (1986)
- Wolfgang Stegmüller : An axiomatization of set theory, based on the systems of Bernays and Quine , in: Käsbauer, M. / Kutschera, FV (ed.): Logic and logic calculus. Festschrift for the 70th birthday of W. Britzelmeyer. Freiburg - Munich 1962.
Web links
- Dieter Wandschneider : On the antinomy problem of logic (pdf) (in: Ratio 1974)