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Model theory is the branch of mathematical logic which deals with the connection between a formal language and its interpretations, or models.
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What is the name for Boolean algebra's version of $\models$ between sets of identities and i...
It seems the name for this idea is equationally complete theory, see page 30 of Walter Taylor's Equational Logic survey.
Not every theory is like that:
for example in the theory of lattices, which is …
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Examples of $\aleph_0$-categorical nonhomogeneous structures
How about: dense linear order with endpoints.
It's $\aleph_0$-categorical by the same proof as for the case without endpoints.
It's not homogeneous because of the endpoints.
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Examples of statements with a high quantifier complexity
The Interchange lemma in the theory of formal languages has a $\Pi_5$ form:
$\forall L$, if $L$ is a context-free language, then
$\exists c$, $c$ is a positive integer, such that
$\forall n\ge 2$, $R …
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Is the equational theory of groups axiomatized by the associative law?
Yes. It suffices to show that any free semigroup embeds in a group.
For this I refer you to MO question 3235:
Let $F$ be a free semigroup (say, $2$-generated) which is embedded in a group $G$, an …
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Examples of statements with a high quantifier complexity
In computability theory, a set of integers $A$ is infinitely often computably traceable if there is a computable function $h$ such that for all functions $g\le_T A$ ($g$ computable from $A$), there is …
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Semantic reflection
At the risk of stating the obvious, in modal logic the axiom schema
$$\Box\varphi\rightarrow\varphi$$
is called the schema T.
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Sufficient Condition for Defining $\in$
The answer is basically "No". Consider the universe $\omega=\{0,1,2,\dots\}$ with $\in=<$.
Let us define
$$x\in' y\leftrightarrow x\in y\wedge \neg\exists z(x\in z\wedge z\in y).$$
Then any embedding …
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The use of the word "model" in Mathematical Logic vs the same word in Natural Sciences
It may seem a bit backwards, but one could try to look at it the other way around: pretend the axioms and theorems are the things that we observe. We don't really observe the field $\mathbb R$ of all …
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Models for the given FOL statement
Yes. If there is a model $\mathcal M$ of size $n$ of any sentence $\phi$ that does not use = then you can take any element $a$ of $\mathcal M$ (using the fact that $n>0$) and let $\mathcal N$ be $\mat …