Take the first-order theory of an infinite set in the first-order language of logical equality alone, with an axiom asserting at least distinct elements for each positive integer . It is complete and eliminates quantifiers: a new logical variable either equals a specified old logical variable or is required to avoid only finitely many existing values, which an infinite domain permits.
For every infinite cardinal , any two first-order models of size are isomorphic because every bijection between their underlying sets preserves logical equality, the whole first-order language. Thus
Its complete -types record only the partition of coordinate indices according to logical equality. There are finitely many such partitions, and each is isolated by the corresponding logical equalities and inequalities. Ryll-Nardzewski therefore recovers countable categoricity; there are no nonprincipal complete finite-arity partial types to omit in this example.

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