Zorn's Lemma is a well-known equivalent of the Axiom of Choice.It is usually regarded as a topic in axiomatic set theory, and its historically standard proof (from the Axiom of Choice) relies on transfinite recursion, a non-elementary set-theoretic concept.However, the statement of Zorn's Lemma itself uses only elementary terminology of partially ordered sets.Hence, it is worthy to establish a proof using only such elementary terminology.Following this line of study, a new simple proof of Zorn's Lemma is given that does not even use the notion of a well-ordered set.
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