Description: Axiom of Replacement. An
axiom scheme of Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory.
Axiom 5 of [TakeutiZaring] p. 19.
It tells us that the image of any set
under a function is also a set (see the variant funimaex 6441). Although
𝜑 may be any wff whatsoever, this
axiom is useful (i.e. its
antecedent is satisfied) when we are given some function and 𝜑
encodes the predicate "the value of the function at 𝑤 is
𝑧".
Thus, 𝜑 will ordinarily have free variables
𝑤
and 𝑧- think
of it informally as 𝜑(𝑤, 𝑧). We prefix 𝜑 with the
quantifier ∀𝑦 in order to "protect" the
axiom from any 𝜑
containing 𝑦, thus allowing us to eliminate any
restrictions on
𝜑. Another common variant is derived
as axrep5 5196, where you can
find some further remarks. A slightly more compact version is shown as
axrep2 5193. A quite different variant is zfrep6 7656, which if used in
place of ax-rep 5190 would also require that the Separation Scheme
axsep 5202
be stated as a separate axiom.
There is a very strong generalization of Replacement that doesn't demand
function-like behavior of 𝜑. Two versions of this
generalization
are called the Collection Principle cp 9320 and the Boundedness Axiom
bnd 9321.
Many developments of set theory distinguish the uses of Replacement from
uses of the weaker axioms of Separation axsep 5202, Null Set axnul 5209, and
Pairing axpr 5329, all of which we derive from Replacement. In
order to
make it easier to identify the uses of those redundant axioms, we
restate them as axioms ax-sep 5203, ax-nul 5210, and ax-pr 5330 below the
theorems that prove them. (Contributed by NM,
23-Dec-1993.) |