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Exactly one infinite equivalence class is not first-order axiomatizable

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Suppose a first-order theory characterized equivalence relations with exactly one infinite class. Name two inequivalent points and require each named class to have at least n elements for every positive integer n. Every finite subset is satisfied with one infinite class and a sufficiently large finite class. Compactness theorem would produce a first-order model with two infinite classes, a contradiction.

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