(mathematics) The principle that every partially ordered set has a linearly ordered subset S which is maximal in the sense that S is not a proper subset of another linearly ordered subset.
Hausdorff maximal principle
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(′hau̇s·dörf ′mak·sə·məl ′prin·sə·pəl)
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| Felix Hausdorff |
| Zorn's lemma |
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