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Past exam of the model theory and Gödel's incompleteness theorems course of the University of Oxford 2010 B 4 f i Solution by
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No. In the standard successor structure, every element other than the named zero has a predecessor:The proposed structure fails this first-order sentence at the integer . Its nonnegative elements map to positive elements, while every negative element maps to an integer at most ; hence no element maps to . This gives a direct first-order distinction, without treating the negative branch as a two-sided successor chain.
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