Non-Well-Founded
A term for systems that are not well-founded, meaning that they are not based strictly on a few independent principles.This means that they have looser logical requirements: that they are merely self-consistent. These systems are very important in computer science despite appearances, since many types are non-wellfounded in nature, such as stream types or other iterative (non-recursive) types. Also, whole-system analyses usually rely on this perspective implicitly, since bootstrapping is otherwise not easily expressible.
The difference can be summarized as "allowing anything that is not self-contradictory or explicitly disallowed" versus "allowing only the enumerated things and nothing else".
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