Non-wellfounded Set Theory

The work

AuthorsLawrence S. Moss
Editors
Typeincollection
Year2018
Citekeymoss2018nonwellfounded

Where it appeared

Published inThe Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
PublisherMetaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University

Settled

AbstractNo abstract, and the judgement is worth stating because something abstract-shaped sits on leaf 1. This is a Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry, and after the header 'Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy / Non-wellfounded Set Theory / First published Wed Apr 16, 2008; substantive revision Tue Apr 24, 2018' it opens: 'This entry is about two kinds of circularity: object circularity, where an object is taken to be part of itself in some sense; and definition circularity, where a collection is defined in terms of itself.' That is the entry's own first paragraph, not a separate labelled abstract -- it is where the article begins, and it continues without a break into the exposition. The same decision as on greenarrays2011g144a12 and the two NSA reports, where an executive summary was declined as an abstract: a summary the author wrote as part of the text is not a field the record should harvest.

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Cite it as

@incollection{moss2018nonwellfounded,
  title        = {Non-wellfounded Set Theory},
  author       = {Lawrence S. Moss},
  year         = {2018},
  booktitle    = {The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy},
  publisher    = {Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University},
}

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