Review of T. Arrigoni, What is meant by V?: Reflections on the universe of all sets [Book Review]

Philosophia Mathematica 16 (1):132-133 (2008)
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The stated aim of this small book is ‘to interpret the façcon de parler that V is the universe of all sets in a way that is faithful to what is actually done in set theory’. In this I think it succeeds and in the process seeks to account for the sense of many mathematicians that successive results in set theory are teaching us more about V …

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