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Basic mathematical discipline founded by G. Cantor (1845–1918) concerned with the axiomatization of the theory of sets. As a fundamental mathematical and logical discipline set theory, the terminology, and its definitions have found many applications in linguistics, particularly in computational linguistics.
References
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