Final clubs (was: Sets etc.)

[John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>]

Jorge Llambias wrote:

> I took "precludes" as descriptive of a situation, not as
> a membership rule of the club!

Ah.

> So the definition of final club has to preclude some
> sets of membership rules like the one above to be
> a real definition.

True. However, the aim is not to find out in what
situations the list of final clubs can be determined,
but simply to get a non-circular definition of "final
club" against the set of cases where it is meaningful.

> What is Quine's answer? That there is no non-circular
> definition?

Actually, he says there is an answer but leaves it up to us.

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