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IN my letter printed in NATURE for April 4, 1918 (vol. ci., p. 84), the class of direct continuations used for well-ordering should have been stated to be “complete”—that is to say, no chain of M outside the class is such that every member of this class is a segment of this new chain. The actual construction of a complete class of direct continuations can be carried out in a perfectly unique manner throughout in terms of the possible chains of M, without assuming that there is any chain of M that exhausts M itself. This construction is given in detail in a paper which wilt shortly appear in the Comptes rendus, and the detail of the consequences of the existence thus proved has already appeared in the Comptes rendus for April 2.
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JOURDAIN, P. A Proof that any Aggregate can be Well-ordered. Nature 101, 304 (1918). https://doi.org/10.1038/101304c0
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