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While maximal independent families can be constructed from ZFC via Zorn's lemma, the presence of a maximal -independent family already gives an inner model with a measurable cardinal, and Kunen has shown that from a measurable cardinal one can construct a forcing extension in which there is a maximal -independent family. We extend this technique to construct proper classes of maximal -independent families for various uncountable. In the first instance, a single ^+-strongly compact cardinal has a set-generic extension with a proper class of maximal -independent families. In the second, we take a class-generic extension of a model with a proper class of measurable cardinals to obtain a proper class of for which there is a maximal -independent family.
Calliope Ryan‐Smith (Mon,) studied this question.