Pocket set theory (PST) is an alternative set theory in which there are only two infinite cardinals, ℵ0 and c. The theory was first suggested by Rudy Rucker in his Infinity and the Mind. The details set out in this entry are due to the American mathematician Randall M. Holmes.
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