Abstract

The independence of the axioms for spans and the independence of the axioms for closure structures are usually taken for granted. In this paper, the author establishes the independence of monotonicity, extensiveness, idempotence, the exchange property, the property of having ∅ \emptyset as a fixed set and two covering properties ( α \alpha -character, with α \alpha being some cardinal number, and a covering property with respect to generators). The independence of the axioms for closure structures and spans follow immediately. It is shown that any proof of the independence of a given axiom must involve an example with certain restrictions on the cardinal number α \alpha .

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