Enumerate the standard positive primes as . For each subset consider the partial type
where divisibility is the ring logical formula .
Every finite subset is realized in : take the product of the finitely many primes required to divide , or if there are none. This is nonzero and is not divisible by any of the distinct finitely many primes required not to divide it. Compactness theorem supplies a complete type extending .
Distinct subsets yield distinct complete extensions, because at an index in their symmetric difference they require opposite divisibility statements. There are such subsets, so there are at least that many complete one-types. There are at most that many because the first-order language has only countably many logical formulas and a partial type is a set of them. Hence
In particular the number of complete one-types is uncountable, despite every partial type realized in the particular countable first-order model being a principal complete type.

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