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What are these sets in Freyd's model?

Recall Freyd's model of $ZF +\neg AC$ (as recounted in MacLane and Moerdijk's book Sheaves in Geometry and Logic): it arises as the Fourman interpretation of the topos of sheaves on a particular ...
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$2^{|V|}$ class cardinalities without global choice

Is it consistent with Morse-Kelley set theory without global choice (but with choice for sets) that there are $2^{|V|}$ proper classes of different cardinalities? Alternative question: Is it ...
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Consistency of definability beyond P(Ord) in ZF

Is it consistent with ZF that the satisfaction relation of $L(P(Ord))$ is $Δ^V_2$ definable? More generally, is it consistent with ZF that there is a $Δ^V_2$ formula (taking $α$ as a parameter) that ...
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Forcing without choice: when countable sets yield reals

One natural way to show that a forcing adds no new reals is to show that it is countable closed (EDIT: this is somewhat misleading, see Joel's comment below). However, it turns out that this is ...
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