Set Theory & Logic Basics | Attic Philosophy 📚

Sooner or later, you're going to need to know the basics of set theory. It can look really confusing, but actually it's not so bad! With just a few simple concepts, we can quickly get to grips with a fair bit of basic set theory as it's used in logic. In this video, I'll go over the basic concepts of set theory. In the follow-up, we'll look at the more philosophical side of things and ask, exactly what is a set?

00:00 - Intro
01:19 - What is a set?
04:11 - Membership
05:13 - Subset
08:37 - The Empty Set
10:34 - Set identity
11:30 - Operations on sets
15:06 - Power set
16:57 - Set comprehension

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