How statement and proof provenance work
The first chip identifies the source of the statement or construction; the second identifies the source of its local proof or verification.
- Literature-sourced: the exact statement appears in a cited source; only wording and notation differ.
- AI-adapted: a semantically identical restatement of literature-sourced material, modulo indexing, notation, and boundary cases adopted by the library.
- AI-generated: a genuinely novel statement formulated by AI, with no source for the claim itself.
These labels describe origin, not correctness: citations and verification chips remain separate evidence.
For every set there is exactly one set whose elements are precisely the subsets of
Statement
For every set there is exactly one set such that, for every , holds if and only if .
Facts & Assumptions
Given: a set .
For every set there is a set that contains every all of whose elements belong to (The Axiom of Power Set: ).
For any parameters and any set , there is a set whose elements are exactly the elements of for which holds (The Axiom Schema of Separation: for each formula , ).
means that every element of is an element of (Subset , proper subset , and the separation notation ).
If every satisfies if and only if , then (The Axiom of Extensionality: ).
Proof
Power Set supplies a set that contains every all of whose elements belong to ; by the meaning of inclusion, contains every with .
Apply Separation to with the formula and the parameter : the set exists, and for every , holds if and only if and .
If then by step 1.1, so the condition " and " reduces to ; hence holds if and only if , which proves existence.
If also satisfies " if and only if " for every , then holds if and only if for every , so ; existence and uniqueness together give the statement.
Depends on
- The Axiom of Power Set: $\forall x\,\exists y\,\forall z\,(\forall t\,(t \in z \to t \in x) \to z \in y)$
- The Axiom Schema of Separation: for each formula $\varphi$, $\forall \bar p\,\forall x\,\exists y\,\forall z\,(z \in y \leftrightarrow (z \in x \wedge \varphi(z,\bar p)))$
- The Axiom of Extensionality: $\forall x\,\forall y\,(\forall z\,(z \in x \leftrightarrow z \in y) \to x = y)$
- Subset $x \subseteq y$, proper subset $x \subsetneq y$, and the separation notation $\{\, z \in x : \varphi(z) \,\}$
Used by
- The power set P(x) = { z : z ⊆ x } Definition
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Sources
- Axiom of power set (Wikipedia) (standard reference, not scraped)
- B. Kaya, MATH 320 Set Theory (METU), Axiom 6 (standard reference, not scraped)
- Power set (Wikipedia) (standard reference, not scraped)