Existential-theory embedding criterion

ID: existential-theory-embedding-criterion

A finite conjunction from the signed atomic diagram of becomes, after existentially closing its new names, a sentence in its existential theory. Joint satisfiability with therefore makes the full diagram finitely satisfiable with . Compactness gives the embedding, with inequalities ensuring injectivity and signed relation literals ensuring reflection. The reverse implication is preservation of existential truth under embeddings.

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