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A detailed and fairly elementary introduction is given to the techniques used by Church to prove the consistency of his set theory with a universal set by constructing models of it from models of ZF. The construction is explained and some general facts about it proved.
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Forster, T. (2001). Church’s Set Theory with a Universal Set. In: Anderson, C.A., Zelëny, M. (eds) Logic, Meaning and Computation. Synthese Library, vol 305. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0526-5_4
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