Transitive models of ZFC have the same natural numbers and agree on whether a shared set is a finite set. Consequently they also agree on whether it is an infinite set.
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U+D. By absoluteness of infinitude between transitive models, two transitive models of ZFC agree on the natural numbers and therefore on whether a shared set is a finite set or an infinite set.
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True. If is a nonempty finite set, thenThis maximum is a successor ordinal, whereas the empty set has rank . Hence a set of nonzero limit ordinal rank cannot be finite and must be an infinite set.