[Set Theory] Can ø belong to a non-empty set?
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Can anyone explain what an empty set is, and what philosophical implications it has?
What is an empty set?
What is the power set of an empty set?
What is the symbol of Empty set?
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An empty set, denoted by ø(phi) or {}, implies that there are no elements present in that set.
Now, in a textbook I saw that for a set C={1,2}, ø belongs to C holds true which I believe is incorrect. I asked ChatGPT and it said, it would've been true if ø was explicitly mentioned as an element in C i.e. C={1,2,ø}
What do you think?
EDIT: By belong I mean "is element of", denoted by a sign that looks like E but stretched
P.S.
It's hard to find the correct symbols while typing in Google Keyboard.
It is perfectly fine to write . However, the simplest and most common way to write this in symbols would be
Note that you don't want to write
, as it is
itself which you are saying is not the empty set, rather than the cardinality of
.
(The standard symbol in mathematics for "not equal" is , rather than
. You can make this symbol in
with the command \neq.)
As mentioned in user21820's nice answer below, though, it is also very common to just write this in words (" is not empty" or "
is nonempty") instead of symbols.
None of the other answers so far mention that professional mathematicians don't specially go out of the way to convert everything to symbols. " is non-empty" is indeed the most common way to express the statement. Furthermore, for complicated structures it is almost always expressed this way, such as:
Given any non-empty chain of fields ordered by inclusion, their union is also a field.