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Heuristic interpretations of the PA-unprovability of Goodstein's Theorem

I've relatively recently learned about Goodstein's Theorem and its unprovability in Peano arithmetic (the Kirby-Paris Theorem). I do not have any real knowledge of formal logic; but I think I've seen …
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17 votes
2 answers
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Is it consistent with ZFC that the real line is approachable by sets with no accumulation po...

Let $P$ denote the following proposition: There exists a set $S$ of subsets of $\mathbb{R}$ such that $S$ is totally ordered by inclusion; each member of $S$ has no accumulation points; the union of …
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9 votes
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Is it a theorem of ZF that a non-empty countable Cartesian product of finite non-singleton s...

I think that, without countable choice, I can prove quite easily that for a sequence $(S_n)_{n \in \mathbb{N}}$ of sets $S_n$ with $|S_n|=2$, the Cartesian product $\,\prod_{n=1}^\infty S_n\,$ is eith …
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8 votes
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Is "the purely probabilistic version of Freiling's axiom of symmetry" disprovable in ZFC?

I'm trying to pinpoint the "intuitive argument" for Freiling's Axiom of Symmetry. It's meant to be a "probabilistic" argument, so thinking about what seems to me to be the probabilistic intuition, it …
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What is the most "concrete-feeling" equivalent formulation of the Continuum Hypothesis that ...

There are many equivalent formulations of the Continuum Hypothesis, but I think the most standard one is that there is no infinite cardinality lying strictly between the cardinality of the natural nu …
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Are the jumps of a càdlàg function "summable"?

Anthony Quas has provided an example of a càdlàg function for which the jumps are not summable: As in https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/10257/, for any $S \subset (0,1]$ and $(x_t)_{t \in S} \i …
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2 votes
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Are the jumps of a càdlàg function "summable"?

This question is motivated by the question https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/4644235/ on Math Stack Exchange. First, I need to define a notion of transfinite summability that I have not seen el …
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Can a weaker version of the Hausdorff paradox be proved without AC?

Following the suggestion in the first comment below my question (and with the help of the second comment), I can give an example of a scenario that is "even worse" than what I requested, where $A \cup …
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3 votes
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Can a weaker version of the Hausdorff paradox be proved without AC?

The Hausdorff paradox is an incredibly counter-intuitive consequence of the axiom of choice; it is also important for demonstrating the non-existence, under AC, of a rotation-invariant measure on the …
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Some "axiom of choice" and "dependent choice" issues

I am probably about to ask some fairly basic questions, and yet I have found it quite hard to find the answers to these. If I understand correctly, mathematicians tend to be quite happy working with …
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