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Probabilistic methods prove existence results in a nonconstructive fashion, by showing the chance of randomly selecting a solution is greater than zero.

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Set theoretic forcing, large cardinals and probabilistic methods

Random real forcing is naturally connected with probability and measure theory, in an essential way, since the generic real that is added by the forcing has all the Borel properties that hold with pro …
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