Assertion: scale | /r/HasProperty | isolated as concept
Facets:
value: originally
type: MANNER
value: in the theory of uniformization
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: Scales were originally isolated as a concept in the theory of uniformization, but have found wide applicability in descriptive set theory, with applications such as establishing bounds on the possible lengths of wellorderings of a given complexity, and showing (under certain assumptions) that there are largest countable sets of certain complexities.