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Michael Potter

Print publication date: 2004

Print ISBN-13: 9780199269730

Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: October 2011

DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199269730.001.0001

The axiom of choice

Chapter:
(p. 238 ) Chapter 14 The axiom of choice
Source:
Set Theory and its Philosophy
Author(s):

Michael Potter

Publisher:
Oxford University Press
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199269730.003.0021

In § 9.4 a principle — the axiom of countable choice — was introduced which differed from the axioms of this book's default theory because it asserted the existence of a set of a particular sort (actually, in this case, a sequence) without supplying a condition that characterizes it uniquely. This chapter investigates some generalizations of the axiom of countable choice that share this feature, and enquires a little further into whether the lack of uniqueness in such specifications should be regarded as troubling.

Keywords:   axiom of countable dependent choice, Skolem's paradox, well-ordering principle, axiom of constructibility

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