Answer by user21820 for Bijection between collection C and proper class PC...
It is conceptually simpler if you work in a class theory such as NBG or MK, in which classes are actually objects. However, if you want to see how the issue looks like in ZFC, you have to always...
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The answer by eyeballfrog perfectly explains - at least, assuming a set-and-class theory in which replacement holds for sets (so, any set-and-class theory extending ZF, for example) - why the answer to...
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If $C$ is a set, then its image by any class function is also a set (Axiom of Replacement). Since $PC$ is the image of $C$ by a class function (the hypothesized bijection) and $PC$ is not a set, we can...
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If there exists a bijection between a collection $C$ and a proper class $PC$, is $C$ necessarily a proper class as well? I've read and have been told by math professors that the answer is yes, but...
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