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Can there be a global linear ordering of the universe without a global well-ordering of the universe?

This question arose in the answers to Asaf Karagila's question Does ZFC prove that the universe is linearly orderable?. The answer there was that one can have a ZFC model with no global linear ...
Joel David Hamkins's user avatar
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How to make countably closed forcing "nice" without choice

When working over a model $V$ of $ZFC$, countably closed forcings are extremely nice: If $\mathbb{P}$ is countably closed, then $V[G]$ has no new $\omega$-sequences of elements of $V$. In ...
Noah Schweber's user avatar
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A new cardinality living in every forcing extension?

I'm broadly interested in notions of "generic presentability" - when a given object exists in every forcing extension of the universe by some fixed forcing, at least up to the appropriate ...
Noah Schweber's user avatar