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We now investigate the basic notions of first-order logic. We shall give mathematical characterizations of elementary classes due to Fraissé, Ehrenfeucht, and Keisler and Shelah. The fundamental results of first-order logic are distinguished from more general languages by a theorem of Lindstrom.
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Monk, J.D. (1976). Elementary Classes and Elementary Equivalence. In: Mathematical Logic. Graduate Texts in Mathematics, vol 37. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-9452-5_27
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