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Exercise 1.1 · Q5

Q.Justify the trueness of the statement: "An element of a set can never be a subset of itself."

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Step 1. Recall from the definitions of sets that an element of a set can itself be a set (Section 1.2 already noted A∈BA\in B is meaningful when BB contains AA as a member).

Step 2. Build a concrete counterexample. Let A={1,2}A=\{1,2\} and let B={1,2,A}={1,2,{1,2}}B=\{1,2,A\}=\{1,2,\{1,2\}\} (a 3-element set: the numbers 1,21,2, and the set AA itself as its third member).

Step 3. Check A∈BA\in B: yes, A={1,2}A=\{1,2\} is literally the third listed element of BB.

Step 4. Check A⊆BA\subseteq B: A⊆BA\subseteq B requires every element of AA to lie in BB. 1∈B1\in B (yes) and 2∈B2\in B (yes) -- so indeed A⊆BA\subseteq B. …

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