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In the Henkin construction, first extend the consistent sentence set to a complete consistent theory with witnesses in an expanded language containing fresh constants. Its term model has closed terms modulo provable equality as elements:Functions are interpreted by applying their symbols to representative terms, and an atomic predicate holds of term classes exactly when the corresponding atomic sentence belongs to . Equality axioms make these definitions independent of representatives. The Henkin witness property handles the existential step in the truth lemma, so the resulting structure satisfies and hence the original .
An arbitrary sentence set need not already have enough closed terms or witnesses. Calling this a term model for means a term-model construction of a model satisfying , usually through that witnessed completion; it does not assert that every arbitrary itself already supplies the construction.
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