A first-order theory is a set of first-order sentences in a fixed first-order language, often identified with its deductive closure. It is -categorical if it has a first-order model of cardinality and all first-order models of that cardinality are isomorphic as first-order structures in that same first-order language. In particular, an isomorphism must preserve the named constants as well as the order.
A first-order theory is complete if it is first-order consistent and decides every first-order sentence: for each it entails either or . Equivalently all its first-order models satisfy exactly the same first-order sentences. First-order consistency is included to exclude the vacuous first-order theory with no first-order models. The distinctions matter here: naming infinitely many ordered points changes countable categoricity without destroying completeness.
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