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The Well-Ordering Theorem - UCB Mathematics

principle can be explained only by its self-evidence." A fundamental law of thought indeed! Paradoxically, Zermelo was never able to give an explicit example of a well-ordering for most sets, including the set of real numbers. He just asserted that it followed from \self-evident principles" that such an order must be possible. The debate continued.

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