Solution

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The canonical forcing name is defined recursively by
If a weakest condition is provided, one may instead pair each only with . The all-conditions version works for an arbitrary nonempty forcing without that extra convention. Induction on rank gives for every generic filter, since each element is activated by some condition of the nonempty . Thus all ground-model objects have canonical names.

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