Let be any transitive class model of ZF containing every ordinal. By part (b), all its internally computed constructible levels are the actual levels, and each belongs to, and is contained in, . Their union therefore gives . Using the permitted fact that , and that itself contains every ordinal, we concludeThe word class matters: a set cannot contain every ordinal. Set-sized standard models instead contain their own truncated constructible universe as described in part (b).
Articles by others on the same topic
There are currently no matching articles.