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(i) if a, bCondition (ii) -- theA, then {a, b}
A and
A
A;
(ii) if a
A and X
A is
0 on A, then X
a
A;
(iii) if a
A, X
A is
0 on A, and
x
a
y(<x,y>
X), then, for some b
A,
x
a
y
b(<x,y>
X).
It is quite easy to see that if A is a transitive set such
that <A,
| A> is a model of
ZFC, then A is admissible. More generally,
the result continues to hold when the power set axiom is omitted
from ZFC, so that both
H(
) and
H(
1) are
admissible. However, since the latter is uncountable, the Barwise
compactness theorem fails to apply to it.
John L. Bell jbell@julian.uwo.ca |