Solution

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Consider the structure .
For extensionality, let have the same members in . Since is transitive, every actual member of or lies in . Thus and have the same members in , and ambient extensionality gives .
By hypothesis , and it has no members in the induced structure, so the empty-set axiom holds. If , then by closure, and its internal members are exactly and , proving pairing.
Finally, if , then . For ,
Every such lies in by transitivity, so the same equivalence holds internally. Hence union is satisfied. This is the basic set-theoretic axioms inherited by a transitive class argument.

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