Examples of partial orders include implications and inclusions ("is a subset of" and the more general "is a subobject of"). Clearly, any totally ordered set is also a partially ordered set, for example <= on the real numbers. |
Examples of partial orders include implications and inclusions ("is a subset of" and the more general "is a subobject of" in the sense of category theory). Clearly, any totally ordered set is also a partially ordered set, for example <= on the real numbers. |