• mathematics, limit cardinals are certain cardinal numbers. A cardinal number λ is a weak limit cardinal if λ is neither a successor cardinal nor zero. This...
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  • inaccessible cardinal". An uncountable cardinal is weakly inaccessible if it is a regular weak limit cardinal. It is strongly inaccessible, or just inaccessible...
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  • means "strongly Mahlo cardinal", though the cardinals originally considered by Mahlo were weakly Mahlo cardinals. If κ is a limit ordinal and the set of...
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    a limit ordinal. Using von Neumann cardinal assignment, every infinite cardinal number is also a limit ordinal. Various other ways to define limit ordinals...
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  • a successor cardinal. Cardinals that are not successor cardinals are called limit cardinals; and by the above definition, if λ is a limit ordinal, then...
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  • successor cardinal or a limit cardinal. Some cardinalities cannot be proven to be equal to any particular aleph, for instance the cardinality of the continuum...
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    1586, divided among fourteen cardinal-deacons, fifty cardinal-priests, and six cardinal-bishops. Popes respected that limit until Pope John XXIII increased...
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    A cardinal (Latin: Sanctae Romanae Ecclesiae cardinalis; lit. 'cardinal of the Holy Roman Church') is a senior member of the clergy of the Catholic Church...
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  • limit 1.  A (weak) limit cardinal is a cardinal, usually assumed to be nonzero, that is not the successor κ+ of another cardinal κ 2.  A strong limit...
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  • successor cardinal or a limit cardinal, and either a regular cardinal or a singular cardinal. A great many sets studied in mathematics have cardinality equal...
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    Aleph number (category Cardinal numbers)
    infinite cardinal κ having cofinality ℵ0 means that there is a (countable-length) sequence κ0 ≤ κ1 ≤ κ2 ≤ ... of cardinals κi < κ whose limit (i.e. its...
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  • is a strong limit cardinal, which completes the proof of its inaccessibility. Although it follows from ZFC that every measurable cardinal is inaccessible...
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    \omega _{n}} for natural numbers n (any limit of cardinals is a cardinal, so this limit is indeed the first cardinal after all the ω n {\displaystyle \omega...
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  • be a singular cardinal. According to Mitchell (1992), the singular cardinals hypothesis is: If κ is any singular strong limit cardinal, then 2κ = κ+....
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     2005–2013) created 90 cardinals in five consistories. With three of those consistories he respected the limit on the number of cardinal electors set at 120...
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  • In mathematics, the inverse limit (also called the projective limit) is a construction that allows one to "glue together" several related objects, the...
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  • uncountable strong limit cardinal is not satisfied in such a model; thus the existence of ℶω (the smallest uncountable strong limit cardinal) cannot be proved...
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  • In set theory, a strongly compact cardinal is a certain kind of large cardinal. An uncountable cardinal κ is strongly compact if and only if every κ-complete...
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  • principle at a singular strong limit cardinal—in fact, at all singular cardinals and all regular successor cardinals—it implies that the axiom of determinacy...
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    The cardinal virtues are four virtues of mind and character in both classical philosophy and Christian theology. They are prudence, justice, fortitude...
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  • Beth number (category Cardinal numbers)
    {\displaystyle \lambda } is a limit ordinal. The cardinal ℶ 0 = ℵ 0 {\displaystyle \beth _{0}=\aleph _{0}} is the cardinality of any countably infinite set...
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  • singular cardinal λ {\displaystyle \lambda } ? Does the generalized continuum hypothesis imply the existence of an ℵ2-Suslin tree? If ℵω is a strong limit cardinal...
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  • measurable cardinals below κ which is regular, and thus κ is a limit of κ-many measurable cardinals. Strong cardinals also lie below superstrong cardinals and...
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  • larger than all finite numbers. These include the transfinite cardinals, which are cardinal numbers used to quantify the size of infinite sets, and the...
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  • theory. The least worldly κ that is a limit of worldly cardinals (equivalently, a limit of κ worldly cardinals). The least worldly κ and λ with Vκ ≺Σ2...
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     March 1473 – 29 November 1530) was an English statesman and Catholic cardinal. When Henry VIII became King of England in 1509, Wolsey became the king's...
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  • natural numbers n {\displaystyle n} (any limit of cardinals is a cardinal, so this limit is indeed the first cardinal after all the ω n {\displaystyle \omega...
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    In mathematics, cardinality describes a relationship between sets which compares their relative size. For example, the sets A = { 1 , 2 , 3 } {\displaystyle...
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  • Reflecting cardinals were introduced by (Mekler & Shelah 1989). Every weakly compact cardinal is a reflecting cardinal, and is also a limit of reflecting...
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  • Grothendieck universe (category Large cardinals)
    the cardinality of x. Then for any universe U, c(U) is either zero or strongly inaccessible. Assuming it is non-zero, it is a strong limit cardinal because...
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