• Universal Property. The pair $\webleft (\mathcal{P}\webleft (X\webright ),\chi _{\webleft (-\webright )}\webright )$ consisting of
    • The powerset $\mathcal{P}\webleft (X\webright )$ of $X$;
    • The characteristic embedding $\chi _{\webleft (-\webright )}\colon X\hookrightarrow \mathcal{P}\webleft (X\webright )$ of $X$ into $\mathcal{P}\webleft (X\webright )$;
    satisfies the following universal property:

    • Given another pair $\webleft (Y,f\webright )$ consisting of
      • A cocomplete poset $\webleft (Y,\preceq \webright )$;
      • A function $f\colon X\to Y$;
      there exists a unique cocontinuous morphism of posets

      \[ \webleft (\mathcal{P}\webleft (X\webright ),\subset \webright )\overset {\exists !}{\to }\webleft (Y,\preceq \webright ) \]

      making the diagram

      commute.


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