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Use a relative consistency construction: a model of ZF gives one of ZFC through $L$, and we construct a model of New Foundations with urelements from it. In the language with membership and a unary predicate $S$, NFU requires that atoms have no members, extensionality holds between sets, and every stratified formula has a set extension. A type assignment gives equal variables equal types and raises type by one across membership. We prove the actual comprehension scheme, rather than invoke its consistency by name.

Start with a model $M\models \mathsf{ZFC}$ and Skolemize it. Apply the Ramsey construction from Question 1 to obtain increasing ordinal indiscernibles $(c_i{)}_{i\in \mathbb{Z}}$, all greater than $\omega +\omega$. The finite satisfiability step uses the infinite increasing list $\omega \cdot 3,\omega \cdot 4,\dots$ in the original model. Include the ordinal and ordering requirements in the finite truth colorings. Ramsey and compactness produce the indiscernibles; their Skolem hull $N$ still models ZFC. The index shift gives an external structure automorphism $j$ of $N$ with $j(c_i)=c_{i+1}$. Such a model is necessarily externally ill-founded: $(c_0,c_{-1},c_{-2},\dots )$ is an external descending ordinal sequence. No well-founded-model hypothesis is being smuggled in.

For every integer $i$, let $D_i$ be the external domain consisting of the objects of $N$ belonging internally to $V_{c_i}^N$. At type $i+1$, declare $S_{i+1}(y)$ iff $N$ says $y\subseteq V_{c_i}$. Use membership of $N$ only for flagged targets; an unflagged object has no typed members. A flagged object is a set of the preceding type. Set-extensionality holds since all members of a flagged set lie in $D_i$.

Every typed comprehension instance holds. Translate its finitely many typed quantifiers into quantifiers bounded by the appropriate sets $V_{c_r}^N$. Separation in $N$ gives its extension $A\subseteq V_{c_i}^N$ for the distinguished free variable of type $i$. Since $c_i+1\le c_{i+1}$, this subset is an object of $D_{i+1}$ and satisfies its set predicate. Also $j:D_i\to D_{i+1}$ is bijective and preserves the typed relations and flags. This is the required type-shifting automorphism.

Collapse to the single domain $D_0$ by definingIf $S(y)$, its image $j(y)$ is a subset of $V_{c_0}$, so its entire extension is visible in $D_0$. The flag is necessary: an unflagged object might otherwise have a partial visible extension. Flagged coextensive objects have equal images under $j$, by extensionality in $N$, and hence are equal; atoms have no $E$-members.

Now take a stratified untyped formula $\phi (x,\bar{a})$. Shift its type assignment so that $x$ has type zero, allowing negative integer types for other variables. Send a variable of assigned type $r$ to $j^r$ of its untyped value. Equality is preserved, and membership $uEv$ translates to flagged ordinary membership from type $r$ to type $r+1$. A set predicate translates to its flag at that type. Quantifiers correspond bijectively under $j^r:D_0\to D_r$. Thus induction on the formula gives exact agreement between its untyped truth and this typed translation.

Typed comprehension supplies an object $A\in D_1$, flagged at type one, containing exactly the type-zero solutions. Let $b=j^{-1}(A)\in D_0$. It is flagged at type zero, and for every $x\in D_0$, $xEb$ iff $x\in A$ iff $\phi (x,\bar{a})$. This proves all stratified comprehension, including an empty set and the universal set. We have constructedIf infinity is included in the convention for NFU, the same construction supports it: $\omega$ and its successor graph lie far below $c_{-1}$ and are fixed by $j$, since they are definable without parameters in $N$. The domain of the new set $\omega$ is the old $\omega$, since $j(\omega )=\omega$. An ordered pair in the new membership relation is $j^{-2}$ of the old Kuratowski pair. The old successor graph is fixed as a whole by $j$, so its elements are exactly these recoded pairs $(n,n+1)$ as $n$ ranges over $\omega$. It therefore supplies an actual new successor injection with proper range. This does not assume that $j$ fixes each nonstandard natural number. This is the rank-shifting automorphism construction of NFU; its logical ingredients are precisely the proved indiscernible-model construction and ordinary set separation in the typed domains.