Question regarding sets and events

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Say we have 3 sets $A,B$ and $C$ and

$A\cap C =\varnothing$

$B\cap C = \varnothing$

$S\setminus A = B$

where $S$ is the sample space.

The question is whether $\{A,B\}$ is an event space or not. I am not able to figure out how to solve this, do i make a venn diagram or something? How would that look like cause I don't get how $S\setminus A = B$ part will work in that.

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Formally an event space is a $\sigma$-algebra $\mathcal A$ with $\mathcal A\subseteq\wp(S)$ where $S$ denotes the sample space.

That means that also $\varnothing$ and $S$ must be elements of $\mathcal A$.

This is not guaranteed by the data.

Only in the special cases $\langle A,B\rangle=\langle\varnothing, S\rangle$ and $\langle A,B\rangle=\langle S,\varnothing\rangle$ the set $\{A,B\}$ is a $\sigma$-algebra.