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Q: Understanding the use of brackets in set theory notation

AndrewI would appreciate help understanding the presence and absence of brackets in this particular example, which hopefully will clarify things for me. It is a line from a short proof by contradiction based on the Axiom of Foundation that No Set is an Element of Itself. Why are there brackets on so...

 

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