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Correct. Frege (and then following him Bertrand Russell in Principia Mathematica) used a definition when a natural number n was the set of all sets with n elements. More info and contrast with the (later chronologically) Von Neumann definition: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Set-theoretic_definition_of_...


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