For an infinite cardinal number , consists of the sets for which , where is transitive closure. The entire transitive membership ancestry is bounded, not only the size of . These collections are transitive sets. At the elements are the hereditarily countable sets.
The hereditarily small set structure fails the Axiom of power set at . Every subset of belongs to , but their full power set has cardinality at least by the Cantor theorem, so cannot itself be hereditarily smaller than .
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