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Exercise 6.2.2
A set is transitive if and only if .
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Proof. ( ) Suppose that is transitive and consider any . Then there is an such that . Since is transitive and we have that so that as well. Since was arbitrary this shows that .
( ) Now suppose that and consider any . If then clearly . So suppose that and consider any . Then since it follows that so that also . So since was arbitrary it follows that . Since was arbitrary by definition is transitive. □