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The axiom of choice for well-ordered families and for families of well-orderable sets

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2014

Paul Howard
Affiliation:
Eastern Michigan University, Department of Mathematics, Ypsilanti, Michigan 48197, E-mail: [email protected] Purdue University, Department of Mathematics, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907-1395, E-mail: [email protected]
Jean E. Rubin
Affiliation:
Purdue University, Department of Mathematics, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907-1395, E-mail: [email protected]

Abstract

We show that it is not possible to construct a Fraenkel-Mostowski model in which the axiom of choice for well-ordered families of sets and the axiom of choice for sets of well-orderable sets are both true, but the axiom of choice is false.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Association for Symbolic Logic 1995

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