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Sep 27, 2019 at 21:39 vote accept Zuhair Al-Johar
Sep 24, 2019 at 18:09 comment added Zuhair Al-Johar OK, I've removed the 'answered' status on the question, so that you can edit it.
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Sep 20, 2019 at 9:19 comment added Zuhair Al-Johar @MonroeEskew, I meant statements similar in kind to the continuum hypothesis, I mean naturally looking statements that ZFC + V=L cannot settle, but "ZFC + No cardinality error is committed" can answer. Are there examples of such statements, since the latter theory is more minimal than the former.
Sep 20, 2019 at 9:06 comment added Monroe Eskew If $\alpha$ is uncountable and $L_\alpha$ satisfies ZFC, then it will have non-definable reals, and thus countable sets without a definable bijection with $\omega$.
Sep 20, 2019 at 9:03 comment added Zuhair Al-Johar @MonroeEskew, from those comments I'm realizing that ZFC + ZFC doesn't commit cardinality errors. To be an even more restrictive condition than ZFC + V=L. Are there natural mathematically looking statements that this theory can settle and that ZFC + V=L cannot?
Sep 20, 2019 at 8:57 comment added Monroe Eskew It's a rather unusual one. I mostly like big ones.
Sep 20, 2019 at 8:57 comment added Zuhair Al-Johar @MonroeEskew would you consider that model to be the standard model of ZFC?
Sep 20, 2019 at 8:28 comment added Monroe Eskew Yes but more specifically, the least $L_\alpha$ satisfying ZFC. One can prove that every set is definable without parameters in that model.
Sep 20, 2019 at 8:16 comment added Zuhair Al-Johar @do you mean a model of ZFC + V=L?
Sep 20, 2019 at 8:15 comment added Monroe Eskew It is consistent. It holds in the minimal model.
Sep 20, 2019 at 8:14 comment added Zuhair Al-Johar @MonroeEskew, can there be a definable bijection between the set of all reals and some ordinal, i.e. can there be a definable well ordering on the reals? would stipulating ZFC not committing cardinality error of second kind, be inconsistent?
Sep 20, 2019 at 8:09 comment added Monroe Eskew It would require that whenever sets are in bijection, then there is a definable bijection.
Sep 20, 2019 at 7:59 comment added Zuhair Al-Johar @MonroeEskew, yes this is part of it, but I'm not really sure if it burns down to that only. For example if I add the axiom that ZFC do not commit cardinality error of second type, would that enforce all sets in ZFC to be definable?
Sep 20, 2019 at 7:08 comment added Monroe Eskew It sounds like you’re asking if it is consistent with ZFC for two sets to be in bijection, without there existing a definable bijection. Do I read that right? If so, please ask your questions in this more straightforward way. Anyway, the answer can be found by looking at a model with a countable set of reals that is not definable. For example, add omega many Cohen reals. See Jech’s book.
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