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The hyperuniverse program. (English) Zbl 1307.03003

The hyperuniverse program is a new approach toward reasonable extensions of the standard set theory ZFC aimed to settle certain ZFC-unsolvable problems. This program might be seen as a modification of the multiverse idea of J. D. Hamkins [Rev. Symb. Log. 5, No. 3, 416–449 (2012; Zbl 1260.03103)]. The core idea is (i) to look at the class of all countable transitive models of ZFC and to concentrate on a certain subclass of them, the preferred ones, and (ii) to consider the class of first-order sentences true in all preferred models as the “most suitable” extension of ZFC.
Of course, the core point here is the choice of the preferred models. The authors give a clear explanation of their approach together with a historical motivation, and a more philosophically oriented discussion concerning reasonable principles to single out the preferred models.
The paper is clearly written and marks well the crucial methodological and philosophical decisions the hyperuniverse program is based upon.

MSC:

03A05 Philosophical and critical aspects of logic and foundations
03C52 Properties of classes of models
03E30 Axiomatics of classical set theory and its fragments
03E65 Other set-theoretic hypotheses and axioms
03E55 Large cardinals

Citations:

Zbl 1260.03103

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