KnowraWell-founded relationLinked fromLinked fromThe 16 pages that link to Well-founded relation, each with the reason it gives.All 16Related 12Narrower topic 1Compared with 3Axiom of dependent choiceCompared with: A serial relation on a nonempty set cannot be well-founded, since it always permits another successor.Maximal elementCompared with: Well-foundedness guarantees minimal elements, the downward analogue rather than maximal elements.Infinite regressCompared with: Well-foundedness rules out the descending dependency chains that generate many regresses.