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What is “Seetapun Enigma”?

A friend of mine just asked me this very question. While I had some training in combinatorics, I have never heard of the "Seetapun Enigma", which, supposedly, is related to the Ram …
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Model category structure on Set without axiom of choice

There is a model category structure on Set in which the cofibrations are the monomorphisms, the fibrations are maps which are either epimorphisms or have empty domain, and the weak …
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Can the similarity between the Riesz representation theorem and the Yoneda embedding lemma be given a formal undergirding?

For example, by viewing Hilbert spaces as enriched categories in some fashion? (I suppose the same idea of considering the inner product of a Hilbert space as a generalized Hom-set …
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“Probabilistic ultrafilters?”

A naive question. Let $S$ be a set and let $[0,1]^S$ the set of functions from $S$ to the closed interval $[0,1]$. Suppose given some function $P \colon [0,1]^S \to [0,1]$ satisf …
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Can one do without Riesz Representation?

In more detail, can one establish that the continuous linear dual of a Hilbert space is again a Hilbert space without appealing to the Riesz Representation Theorem? For me, the Ri …