>>14346542I can't speak of the rest of your post but imo Suppes's set theory isn't very good.
Even ignoring the fact that it's badly outdated, the book is in general focused more on the "traditional" logic/math book approach of just presenting theorems and proofs, with not too much exposition in between. For example in his section on relations, he simply gives the textbook definition of each type of relation and then goes to prove pretty inane theorems from them without giving you the slightest hint of they truly entail.
And most of the exercises are just "Prove theorem 204", with this theorem just being a specific case of something you've seen, leaving little challenge.
It's okay if that's what you're looking for but for an actual intro, I'd much prefer to recommend something like enderton or even jech's intro to set theory if you want something more challenging.
