Solution

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We first need the minimal-member bound for a Razborov-closed family: an -closed family has at most inclusion-minimal members of size . Indeed, its minimal members of size at most cannot contain sets whose pairwise intersections lie inside a proper subset of another minimal member, since closure would then contain that proper subset. The resulting set-system bound is proved by induction on : fix one member , partition the remaining members according to their intersections , delete , and apply the bound in each class. Summing over gives
If is not the set of all graphs, no inclusion-minimal member of has size zero or one. Every -clique in contains a minimal , so the number of such cliques is at most
Dividing by and using
the assumed gives a proportion at most
Thus either is universal or it contains at most half of all -cliques.

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