Axioms satisfied by hereditarily countable sets

ID: axioms-satisfied-by-hereditarily-countable-sets

The transitive set of hereditarily countable sets satisfies every ZFC axiom except the Axiom of power set. For internal definable functions on a countable domain, ambient Axiom schema of replacement gives a countable range of hereditarily countable sets, which belongs to the structure by countable-subset closure. The same closure proves axiom schema of collection and retains countable choice-function graphs. All subsets of are elements, but their uncountable full power set is not an element, so Power Set fails.

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