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- Subject: Absoluteness.
- Message-ID: <BzFrpK.DBC@cantua.canterbury.ac.nz>
- From: wft@math.canterbury.ac.nz (Bill Taylor)
- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 03:44:07 GMT
- Organization: Department of Mathematics, University of Canterbury
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- Several times I thought I have understood the technical logical term "absolute".
- But each time I leave the book thinking I know what it is, then the next day
- find I can't remember it any more. Perhaps the net folk will have more
- success than the text books, driving it into my thick skull.
-
- So...
-
- 1) What does it mean for a set theoretic concept to be "absolute".
-
- 2) Could you briefly outline why, in particular, "being an ordinal" is
- absolute, but "being a cardinal" is not (or at least "having the same
- cardinality" is not.
-
- 3) Does (2) have anything at all to do with the recently-noted-here fact that
- in ZF- it is not possible to define a cardinal, though it is to define an
- ordinal.
-
- Thanks. Bill Taylor. wft@math.canterbury.ac.nz
-