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Here is a precise base change of a pullback square statement. Suppose $A=B{\times }_{D}C$ is a pullback in a category and $t:D^{\prime }\to D$ is a morphism. Assume the pullbacks in a categoryexist, where $A\to D$ is the common composite. The induced square with vertices $A^{\prime },B^{\prime },C^{\prime },D^{\prime }$ is a pullback in a category; equivalently,Indeed, compatible morphisms $T\to B^{\prime }$ and $T\to C^{\prime }$ give morphisms $b:T\to B$, $c:T\to C$, and a common $v:T\to D^{\prime }$, with the composites of $b,c$ to $D$ both equal to $tv$. The original pullback in a category gives a unique morphism $h:T\to A$ with projections $b,c$. Its composite to $D$ is $tv$, so the defining pullback in a category for $A^{\prime }$ gives a unique morphism $T\to A^{\prime }$ above $h,v$. Its maps to $B^{\prime }$ and $C^{\prime }$ are the prescribed ones by uniqueness in those pullbacks in a category. Conversely, these projections recover $b,c,v$, so every possible factorization is the same. This proves the universal property without requiring arbitrary categorical limits in the ambient category.