(Logic) can a set be both reflexive and asymmetric?

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My exercise book is asking me to: "Specify a relation and a set $S$ such that the relation is reflexive on $S$ and asymmetric".



How can a set be both reflexive and asymmetric?






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      How can a set be both reflexive and asymmetric?






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      My exercise book is asking me to: "Specify a relation and a set $S$ such that the relation is reflexive on $S$ and asymmetric".



      How can a set be both reflexive and asymmetric?






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          Suppose $S$ is non-empty. Take an element $ain S$; since the relation is reflexive $asim a$. Yet since the relation is asymmetric, this implies $anotsim a$, which is absurd.



          We get around this by specifying $S=varnothing$ and the relation as the empty relation. It is vacuously reflexive and asymmetric.






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          Suppose $S$ is non-empty. Take an element $ain S$; since the relation is reflexive $asim a$. Yet since the relation is asymmetric, this implies $anotsim a$, which is absurd.



          We get around this by specifying $S=varnothing$ and the relation as the empty relation. It is vacuously reflexive and asymmetric.






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          Suppose $S$ is non-empty. Take an element $ain S$; since the relation is reflexive $asim a$. Yet since the relation is asymmetric, this implies $anotsim a$, which is absurd.



          We get around this by specifying $S=varnothing$ and the relation as the empty relation. It is vacuously reflexive and asymmetric.






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          Suppose $S$ is non-empty. Take an element $ain S$; since the relation is reflexive $asim a$. Yet since the relation is asymmetric, this implies $anotsim a$, which is absurd.



          We get around this by specifying $S=varnothing$ and the relation as the empty relation. It is vacuously reflexive and asymmetric.






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          Suppose $S$ is non-empty. Take an element $ain S$; since the relation is reflexive $asim a$. Yet since the relation is asymmetric, this implies $anotsim a$, which is absurd.



          We get around this by specifying $S=varnothing$ and the relation as the empty relation. It is vacuously reflexive and asymmetric.







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