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It may not be obvious that it can be proven, without using AC, that there even exists a nonzero ordinal onto which there is no surjection from the reals (if there is such an ordinal, then there must be a least one because the ordinals are wellordered). However, suppose there were no such ordinal.
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of all ordinals into the set of all sets of orderings on the reals (which can to be seen to be a set via repeated application of the
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has a strong partition cardinal above it. This does not preclude the possibility that a single strong partition cardinal, above
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Kechris, Alexander S.; Woodin, W. Hugh (2008), "The equivalence of partition properties and determinacy",
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shows that the class of all ordinals is in fact a set. But that is impossible, by the
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of all prewellorderings of the reals having order type α. This would give an
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Cunningham, Daniel W. (2017), "A strong partition cardinal above
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Games, scales, and Suslin cardinals: The Cabal Seminar, Vol. I
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Index

Theta (set theory)
set theory
theta
ordinal
surjection
reals
strong partition cardinals
axiom of determinacy
well-ordered
cardinal successor
cardinality of the continuum
axiom of choice
models
axiom of determinacy
supremum
order types
prewellorderings
set
injection
class
powerset axiom
axiom of replacement
Burali-Forti paradox


doi
10.1007/s00153-017-0529-8
MR
3633802
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