Description: Define the subsets class
or the class of subset relations. Similar to
definitions of epsilon relation (df-eprel 5586) and identity relation
(df-id 5580) classes. Subset relation class and Scott
Fenton's subset
class df-sset 35485 are the same: S = SSet (compare dfssr2 38003 with
df-sset 35485), the only reason we do not use dfssr2 38003 as the base
definition of the subsets class is the way we defined the epsilon
relation and the identity relation classes.
The binary relation on the class of subsets and the subclass
relationship (df-ss 3966) are the same, that is,
(𝐴
S 𝐵 ↔ 𝐴 ⊆ 𝐵) when 𝐵 is a set, see brssr 38005. Yet in
general we use the subclass relation 𝐴 ⊆ 𝐵 both for classes and for
sets, see the comment of df-ss 3966. The only exception (aside from
directly investigating the class S e.g. in relssr 38004 or in
extssr 38013) is when we have a specific purpose with its
usage, like in
case of df-refs 38014 versus df-cnvrefs 38029, where we need S to
define
the class of reflexive sets in order to be able to define the class of
converse reflexive sets with the help of the converse of S.
The subsets class S has another place in set.mm
as well: if we
define extensional relation based on the common property in extid 37814,
extep 37787 and extssr 38013, then "extrelssr" " |- ExtRel
S " is a
theorem along with "extrelep" " |- ExtRel E " and "extrelid" " |-
ExtRel I " . (Contributed by Peter Mazsa,
25-Jul-2019.) |