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How elementary can we go?

This following result answers the third bullet item question in the negative. Proposition. Suppose $(M,\in)$ is a transitive model of $ZF$ of uncountable cofinality. Then there is some ordinal $\alph …
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Kunen's inconsistency result

Your $\Phi(\kappa)$ uses an existential quantifier over classes (since $j$ is a class), whereas $j$ is only assumed to preserve first order formulae, so there is no reason to conclude that $j(\kappa)$ …
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Classifying set theories whose standard models sharing the same ordinals are equal

In this edit, the statement of Friedman's theorem is reformulated (the previous formulation was incorrectly stated). Thanks to Dmytro Taranovsky and Farmer Schultzenberg for pointing out the blooper. …
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Taller models of ZFC

Regarding Question 1: It is certainly possible (i.e., consistent with ZFC) that there is only one transitive model of ZFC. For example, if there are transitive models $M$ and $N$ of ZFC such t …
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