Practice question · True or false
For any set , both and hold.
Hints
- One is about inclusion, the other about membership.
- Is listed among 's elements?
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False
Why
False. always holds, vacuously, since there is no element of to find missing from . But requires the empty set to be listed as a member, which is true only for sets that happen to contain it, such as . Inclusion and membership are different relations.
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