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Basic Properties of Finite Sets

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Let N\mathbb{N} be the set of natural numbers with successor map SS, let ≤\le be the order on N\mathbb{N}, let [n][n] denote the initial segment determined by nn, and let the notions number of elements ∣X∣|X| and finite be as in those definitions. Then the following hold.

  1. For every n∈Nn\in\mathbb{N} the set [n][n] has nn elements.
  2. For every object xx the set {x}\{x\} has 11 element. If AA has kk elements and x∉Ax\notin A, then A∪{x}A\cup\{x\} has S(k)S(k) elements.
  3. If XX is finite and A⊆XA\subseteq X, then AA is finite. If moreover XX has nn elements and A≠∅A\ne\emptyset, then AA has mm elements for some m≤nm\le n.
  4. If XX has nn elements, YY is a set, and q:X→Yq:X\to Y is surjective (that is, every y∈Yy\in Y equals q(x)q(x) for some x∈Xx\in X), then YY has mm elements for some m≤nm\le n; in particular YY is finite and nonempty.

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