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Inaccessible cardinals and the perfect set property for coanalytic sets

I am wondering who proved the following fact: ($\ast$) If $\omega_1$ is not inaccessible in $L$, then there is an uncountable coanalytic set of reals without a perfect subset. I have been unable to ...
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Is every ordinal potentially definable?

It is easy to see that, if $V\models\alpha>\omega_1^{CK}$, then $\alpha$ is not recursive in any forcing extension of $V$. The argument goes as follows: The relation "$\Phi_e=r$" is $\Pi^0_2$. The ...
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When is $A$ "$L$-ish" whenever $B$ is "$L$-ish"?

My question is about a variant of the usual notion of relative constructibility, $\le_c$ (which an earlier version of this question confusingly denoted "$\le_L$"), in set theory. Fix a ...
Noah Schweber's user avatar