Extensional cumulative universe over Quine atoms

ID: extensional-cumulative-universe-over-quine-atoms

Start with distinct formal atoms with membership extensions . Recursively adjoin a unique representative of every subset of a previous stage, except that uses the atom already present. Define membership by these extensions. Each set-sized collection of objects has bounded construction rank, so it has a representative at a later stage. This gives full extensionality, unlike adjoining an ordinary singleton distinct from a Quine atom. Definable subsets and ranges, unions and power sets are set-sized collections in the ambient model and hence have representatives. The pure finite hierarchy supplies infinity. Every permutation of the atoms extends recursively; hereditary finite support restriction gives the hereditarily finite-supported Quine-atom model, whose two-element atom subsets have no choice function.

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