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Transitive collapse fixes transitive subsets

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If X has a well-founded extensional inherited membership relation and T⊆X is a transitive set, its Mostowski collapse theorem map π fixes every member of T. The recursion π(x)={π(y):y∈x∩X} and well-founded relation induction give this pointwise. If also T∈X, then π(T)=T.

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