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Why hasn't GCH become a standard axiom of ZFC?
I've never seen a text that includes GCH in the ZFC axioms. I presume this means that GCH has not achieved widespread acceptance. This seems surprising to me, given that:
The cardinal numbers ...
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Forcing Question about a sequence of functions from $\aleph_{0}$ into $2 = \{0, 1\}$
I'm trying to go through Timothy Chow's A Beginner's Guide to Forcing (arxiv pdf).
My particular question is about the first paragraph of Section $5$ (on p. $7$ of the above pdf).
First, my vague ...
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Is this definition true about comparisons of sets?
I'm trying to find the error in a proof that yields a contradictory result, and I'm beginning to think that one of the definitions I start with is incorrect or self-contradictory. Is the following ...
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An elementary question regarding the uniqueness of a set, viewed with different cardinality
Does the cardinality of sets, like for example the real numbers, depend on the fundamental axioms one is working with?
If so, what does it mean to speak of such a set if it is not really one single ...
