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An element of either intersection would be an element of the empty set, so both intersections have no element and therefore equal the empty set.

Proof

By The Boolean Operations on Classes, Disjointness, and the Universal Class (i), βˆ…βˆ©X={u:uβˆˆβˆ…βˆ§u∈X}\emptyset\cap X=\{u:u\in\emptyset\wedge u\in X\}, so by Class Abstraction: the Class of All Sets Satisfying a Predicative Formula (i) a set uu is an element of βˆ…βˆ©X\emptyset\cap X if and only if

uβˆˆβˆ…andu∈X.u\in\emptyset\quad\text{and}\quad u\in X.

An element uu of βˆ…βˆ©X\emptyset\cap X would therefore be an element of βˆ…\emptyset; but βˆ…\emptyset has no element by The Empty Set, the Unordered Pair and the Singleton (i). Hence βˆ…βˆ©X\emptyset\cap X is a class with no element, and so it equals βˆ…\emptyset by Elements Are Sets, and the Empty Set and the Pair of Two Sets Exist and Are Unique (ii). This proves (i).

The same argument, with the roles of the two factors exchanged, gives Xβˆ©βˆ…=βˆ…X\cap\emptyset=\emptyset, which is (ii).

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