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In [1], it is conjectured that if S is a sentence in the first-order functional calculus with identity, and every subsystem of every finite relational system which satisfies S also satisfies S , then S is finitely equivalent to a universal sentence. (Two sentences are finitely equivalent if and only if they are satisfied by the same finite relational systems.) The following sentence S refutes that conjecture, and moreover S is satisfied by all finite subsystems of all (finite or infinite) relational systems which satisfy it. 1 S contains as predicate letters only the two-place predicate letters ≦, R (and the identity symbol =).
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W. W. Tait (1959) studied this question.
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