(order theory) Of a subset of a partially ordered set; containing elements at least as late as any given element of the set, relative to the given partial order.The Archimedean property of real numbers means that the natural numbers form a cofinal subset of â„.
November 29, In order to apply this result to Quine’s project of radical translation, we take X to be the set of all Native observation sentences and construe an observational sub-language that contains only observation sentences and all their syntactic parts such that X is cofinal in the set of expressions of the sub-language.
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containing elements at least as late as any given element of the containing set
