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Past exam of the model theory and Gödel's incompleteness theorems course of the University of Oxford 2009 B 6 d iv Solution by
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There are distinct irrational cuts of the named rational order. Each defines a consistent complete one-type as above, already over the empty additional parameter set, since the rational constants are part of the language. Different cuts cannot be realized by the same element: a named rational between two cuts gives contradictory required inequalities.
An -saturated model must realize every one of these types, so it has at least Elements. Consequently there is no countable -saturated model of . This does not contradict existence of a saturated model from the preceding construction, whose size was unrestricted, or existence of the countable prime model, whose requirement is different. No continuum-hypothesis assumption is involved.
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