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Exercise 8.1.15
If every set is equipotent to an ordinal number, then the Axiom of Choice holds.
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Proof. Let be any set and be an ordinal equipotent to . Then there is a bijection from to . We can then simply order according to , that is order it by the relation
Clearly then is isomorphic to so that it is a well-ordering. Hence can be well-ordered. Since was an arbitrary set, this shows the Well-Ordering Principle, which is equivalent to the Axiom of Choice by Theorem 8.1.13. □