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Universal sentences are preserved by substructures

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Quantifier-free logical formulas have the same truth value in a substructure and its ambient first-order structure on tuples from the smaller carrier. First-order term evaluation agrees; atomic relations agree by restriction; Boolean connectives preserve agreement. A universally quantified quantifier-free matrix true on all ambient tuples is therefore true on all substructure tuples.

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