Nonstandard element type

ID: nonstandard-element-type

In a model of Peano arithmetic, an element realizes this partial type exactly when it is not a standard numeral. A model omitting it is isomorphic to the standard natural-number structure. For a complete consistent extension of arithmetic, the type is nonprincipal exactly when is the Theory of true arithmetic: apply the omitting types theorem in one direction and use an actual standard witness to refute any proposed isolating formula in the other. For incomplete theories, a principal partial type can still be omitted by some models.

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