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RemarkRemark: Literature-sourcedProof: Not applicableSession-authored (Fable 5 assisted)audited 2026-08-13 rests on unproved material (inherited)
How statement and proof provenance work

The first chip identifies the source of the statement or construction; the second identifies the source of its local proof or verification.

  • Literature-sourced: the exact statement appears in a cited source; only wording and notation differ.
  • AI-adapted: a semantically identical restatement of literature-sourced material, modulo indexing, notation, and boundary cases adopted by the library.
  • AI-generated: a genuinely novel statement formulated by AI, with no source for the claim itself.

These labels describe origin, not correctness: citations and verification chips remain separate evidence.

Rests on 3 statements not proved in this library, by way of the results it cites. This item cites no such statement directly; it depends on results that do. The unproved premises it inherits are Cohen's first model: an infinite Dedekind-finite set of reals, Sierpiński 1947: the generalised continuum hypothesis implies the Axiom of Choice and The continuum hypothesis and its generalisation are independent of ZFC. Each is recorded with a citation to the literature and is not established here, because the track that would prove it has not yet been developed in this library. Everything else in this proof is proved here.

A limit for each diagram need not provide a chosen limit functor without a simultaneous choice of representatives

Remark

Existence of a limit for each diagram does not itself specify one limiting cone for every diagram. The functors in Chosen limits and colimits of a fixed small shape assemble into limit and colimit functors require simultaneous choices of such cones, an application of an appropriate Axiom of Choice (The Axiom of Choice) when the diagrams and available cones form sets.

Once choices are made, no further arbitrary choices define the action on natural transformations: the universal property forces it. Different systems of chosen limits give naturally isomorphic limit functors because any two limits have unique compatible isomorphisms (Any two limits, or any two colimits, of one diagram are uniquely isomorphic compatibly with their structure maps). For a proper class of diagrams, the needed selection is a separate global or universe-level convention, not a consequence of the set-sized Axiom of Choice.

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