Almost disjoint families and “never” cardinal invariants
We define two cardinal invariants of the continuum which arise naturally from combinatorially and topologically appealing properties of almost disjoint families of sets of the natural numbers. These are the never soft and never countably paracompact numbers. We show that these cardinals must both be equal to under the effective weak diamond principle , answering questions of da Silva S.G., On the presence of countable paracompactness, normality and property in spaces from almost disjoint families,...