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Every infinite cardinal is an aleph

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Assuming the axiom of choice, the well-ordering theorem makes every set equipotent to an initial ordinal. The infinite initial ordinals are exactly the ℵα​, so every infinite cardinal is ℵα​ for a unique ordinal α.

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