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My question is about terminology:

Do you know why stationary sets were named such?

Going over the following MO question following MO question about the intuition behind stationary sets, the only compelling argument I can think of is Fodor's lemma.

Is this the reason?

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Why stationary sets were named such?

My question is about terminology:

Do you know why stationary sets were named such?

Going over the following MO question about the intuition behind stationary sets, the only compelling argument I can think of is Fodor's lemma.

Is this the reason?

lo.logic set-theory