members is
. Now
is always greater than
. Hence the number of classes in the world is greater than the number of individuals. If, now, we suppose the number of individuals to be 9, as we did just now, the number of classes will be
, i.e. 512. Thus if we take our numbers as being applied to the counting of classes instead of to the counting of individuals, our arithmetic will be normal until we reach 512: the first number to be null will be 513. And if we advance to classes of classes we shall do still better: the number of them will be
