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This is one of two articles that came out of my dissertation (also titled The Ground Axiom).

Unforcing and the Ground Axiom My interest in “unforcing,” somehow working backwards from a forcing extension to a ground model, started early in my set theory studies. When I went through the rite of passage of learning Paul Cohen’s forcing – an exercise in induction, with a lovely (and at the time, frustratingly opaque) back-and-forth between technical details and...