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Must there be a proper class of Reinhardt cardinals if there is a Reinhardt cardinal?

A cardinal is Reinhardt if $\kappa$ is the critical point of a nontrivial elementary embedding of $V$ to itself, where $V$ is the class of all sets. As Reinhardt cardinals are inconsistent with $\math …
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1970 question of Reinhardt - how large is this ordinal?

On page 241 of William Reinhardt's paper "Ackermann's set theory equals ZF" (Annals of Math. Logic vol. 2, 1970), question 4.15 is the following: How large is the first ordinal $\gamma$ such that the …
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Some questions about the Hyperuniverse Program

The Hyperuniverse Program, founded by Sy D. Friedman, intends to produce new second-order axioms of set theory which appropriately formalize "the universe is maximal" in one of a few ways. A height-ma …
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Recording of 2009 lecture on Harvey Friedman's work

On December 13--20 2009 at Bristol, there was a meeting devoted to thorough dissection of Harvey Friedman's work on the foundations of mathematics and his statements claimed to be equivalent to consis …
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Is there a characterization of measurables in terms of indiscernibles?

There is a characterization of $\alpha$-Erdős cardinals in terms of sets of indiscernibles of order type $\alpha$. There is also a characterization of Ramsey cardinals in terms of sets of good indisce …
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Has a computer search for inconsistency of large cardinals been carried out before?

In discussion about the consistency of large cardinals, a justification which occasionally appears is that despite years of work, no inconsistency has currently been discovered. For example, here are …
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