Well-order
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A
well-order
(or
well-ordering
) on a
set
a
S
is a
total order
on
S
with the property that every
nonempty
subset
of
S
has a least element in this ordering.
The [well-ordering principle]
?
states that every set can be well-ordered.
See also
Ordinal
.