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An uncountable cardinal number is weakly compact when every -satisfiable theory in an infinitary language with at most nonlogical symbols is satisfiable. A cardinal is inaccessible when it is uncountable, regular, and a strong limit cardinal.
Two standard results supply the proof. First, every weakly compact cardinal is inaccessible. Second, every weakly compact has the Keisler extension property: there is a transitive set such that
and . Since is inaccessible, the relevant downward absoluteness makes “ is inaccessible”. Hence satisfies “there is an inaccessible cardinal”. By elementarity, satisfies the same sentence, so it contains some inaccessible . Every ordinal in is below , and inaccessibility is absolute here, giving

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