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Feb 4, 2011 at 18:13 comment added Emil Jeřábek If you drop pairing, nothing happens, because pairing is provable from replacement (which you'll need anyway) and the existence of any set with at least two elements.
Dec 6, 2010 at 6:15 comment added Stefan Geschke Just one more observation: I have absolutely no intuition of what happens if you drop pairing, but I would guess that it will be difficult to say anything reasonable if you cannot talk about ordered pairs (which seem to require unordered pairs for their construction). Not strictly a subset of ZFC, but a weakening nonetheless: You could try to get away with singletons and finite unions instead of Pairing and arbitrary unions.
Dec 5, 2010 at 16:56 comment added Ewan Delanoy @Stefan : indeed, "abstraction scheme" means "separation scheme". I updated the OP by adding the power set axiom to my favorite candidate for a minimal axiom system.
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