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Exercise 6.2.1
A set is transitive if and only if .
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Proof. ( ) Suppose that is a transitive set and consider any . Then since is transitive. Thus so that, since was arbitrary, .
( ) Now suppose that and consider any . Then also so that . Hence, since was arbitrary, is transitive by definition. □