Apply the infimum clause of the least-upper-bound lemma to the ordered field of real numbers, whose nonempty subsets bounded above have suprema, after noting that a class with an element is not the empty set.
Since is a subclass of the set , it is a set by Subclasses of Sets Are Sets, the Union and Power Set of a Set Exist Uniquely, Binary Unions of Sets Are Sets, and the Universal Class Is Proper (i).
By The Real Numbers Form an Ordered Field in Which Every Nonempty Set Bounded Above Has a Supremum (i), with , , , and is an ordered field, and by The Real Numbers Form an Ordered Field in Which Every Nonempty Set Bounded Above Has a Supremum (ii) every subset of other than the empty set that is bounded above has a supremum. So satisfies the hypothesis of Infima, the Archimedean Property, Density of the Rationals and Rational Approximation from Below in an Ordered Field Whose Nonempty Sets Bounded Above Have Suprema, and by Infima, the Archimedean Property, Density of the Rationals and Rational Approximation from Below in an Ordered Field Whose Nonempty Sets Bounded Above Have Suprema (i) every nonempty subset of that is bounded below has an infimum.
The subset is nonempty (it has an element , while has none by The Empty Set, the Unordered Pair and the Singleton (i)) and bounded below, so it has an infimum in . Moreover is a set (by Bounds, Least and Greatest Elements, Suprema and Infima for a Partial Order (iv) and Bounds, Least and Greatest Elements, Suprema and Infima for a Partial Order (iii), lies in , which is contained in by Bounds, Least and Greatest Elements, Suprema and Infima for a Partial Order (i), and elements of classes are sets by Classes, Membership, Sets and Proper Classes (i)).
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