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Large cardinal hypotheses and related hypotheses like projective determinacy are well-known to be gauges of the consistency strength of various theories. What reasons are there to believe in their tr …

Let's say that a (recursively axiomatizable) set theory $T$ extending ZF is "ordinal-categorical" if, whenever $M$ and $N$ are standard models of $T$ sharing the same ordinals, one has $M = N$. For e …

Let $V$ denote the von Neumann universe and $L$ Gödel's constructible universe. For any set $X$, let $P(X)$ denote the power set of $X$. Assume that $0^\sharp$ exists (and ZFC). What is the smallest …

Let's say that a "complete resolution of GCH" is a definable class function $F: \operatorname{Ord}\longrightarrow \operatorname{ Ord}$ such that $2^{\aleph_\alpha} = \aleph_{F(\alpha)}$ for all ordina …

This question is a follow-up from my recent question, Classifying set theories whose standard models sharing the same ordinals are equal Let's say that a (recursively axiomatizable) set theory $T$ ex …

What is the strongest known natural large cardinal axiom compatible with $V = L$ (strongest in the sense that it implies all known "small" large cardinal axioms, where a large cardinal axiom is said t …

What is the simplest non-constructible set of integers (say, in the analytical hierarchy) that is compatible with the nonexistence of $0^\sharp$? In particular, can there still be a non-constructible …