Thomas Hardy's Wessex Thomas Hardy's Wessex The English author Thomas Hardy set all of his major novels in the south and southwest of England. He named the area "Wessex" after the medieval Anglo-Saxon kingdom that existed in this part of that country prior to the unification of England by Æthelstan. Although the places that appear in his novels actually exist, in many cases he gave the place a fictional name. For example, Hardy's home town of Dorchester is called Casterbridge in his books, notably in "The Mayor of Casterbridge". In an 1895 preface to the novel "Far From the Madding Crowd" he described
S (set theory) sets" or "the class of all ordinals" include sets from all stages of the iterative hierarchy. Hence such collections cannot be formed at any given stage, and thus cannot be sets. This section follows Boolos (1998: 91). The variables "x" and "y" range over sets, while "r", "s", and "t" range over stages. There are three primitive two-place predicates: The axioms below include a defined two-place set-stage predicate, "Bxr", which abbreviates: "Bxr" is read as “set "x" is formed before stage "r".” Identity, denoted by infix ‘=’, does not play the role in S it plays in other set theories,