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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2022 ii Paper 4 16F b iii Solution by
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Statement (iii) can fail because a nontransitive ambient set can omit the elements that distinguish two of its members. TakeNeither element of has an element that also lies in : the second contains , which is omitted. Their predecessor sets for membership restricted to are therefore both empty, although the two elements are distinct. Hence this restricted membership relation, and any isomorphic relation, is not extensional.
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