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### Is the class of cardinals totally ordered?

In a Wikipedia article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleph_number#Aleph-one I encountered the following sentence: "If the axiom of choice (AC) is used, it can be proved that the class of cardinal ...
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### A question about cardinal arithmetics without the Axiom of Choice

Is multiplication of infinite cardinals defined in ZF without Choice?
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### If $\kappa$ is a cardinal, $\aleph$ is any $\aleph$-number, and if $\kappa\leq\aleph$ then $\kappa$ can be well ordered as well.

I'm having trouble understanding the statement: If $\kappa$ is a cardinal, $\aleph$ is any $\aleph$-number, and if $\kappa\leq\aleph$ then $\kappa$ can be well ordered as well. I understand the ...
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### Injections from all ordinals into a set $X$

We are working in $\mathsf{ZF}$. Let $X$ be a set. Let $A$ be the class of all injections $f: \alpha \to X$ for arbitrary ordinals $\alpha$. I am quite sure that, in fact, $A$ is a set, since if not,...
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### If AC is false, does that mean there exist a set $A$ which has different cardinality from any ordinals?

If a set $A$ has the same cardinality as an ordinal $\alpha$, then there exists a bijection $f:\alpha\to A$, so $A$ is indexed by $\alpha$ and hence well-ordered. Therefore a choice function \$g:\...
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### Relation between limit ordinals and alephs. [duplicate]

I was wondering what the relation is between a limit ordinal and the alephs. Are all limit ordinals alephs and if so can it be proven.