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GENERIC LARGE CARDINALS AS AXIOMS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 May 2019

MONROE ESKEW
MONROE ESKEW*
Affiliation:
Kurt Gödel Research Center, University of Vienna
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*KURT GÖDEL RESEARCH CENTER UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA WÄHRINGER STRASSE 25 1090 WIEN, AUSTRIA E-mail: monroe.eskew@univie.ac.at
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Abstract

We argue against Foreman’s proposal to settle the continuum hypothesis and other classical independent questions via the adoption of generic large cardinal axioms.

Keywords

03A0503E5503E65generic large cardinalscontinuum hypothesismutual inconsistency
Type
Research Article
Information
The Review of Symbolic Logic , Volume 13 , Issue 2 , June 2020 , pp. 375 - 387
Copyright
Copyright © Association for Symbolic Logic 2019 

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