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The Axiom of Constructibility

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Fundamentals of Contemporary Set Theory

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Before reading this chapter, the reader should go back and re-read sections 1 and 2 of Chapter II, where we developed the concept of the set theoretic hierarchy,Vα , α ∊ On.

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  1. University of Lancaster, Lancaster, England

    Keith J. Devlin (Reader in Mathematics)

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Devlin, K.J. (1979). The Axiom of Constructibility. In: Fundamentals of Contemporary Set Theory. Universitext. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-0084-7_5

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