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In the preceding chapters we defined heirs, special sons, coheirs, Morley sequences, etc. for a type p defined over a model of the theory T. It is essential for the existence of these notions that we start with a set of parameters M that is a model of T: We continually used the fact that if A is any set of parameters containing M, then every finite situation exhibited by the elements of A can be copied inside M.

Deinde ibidem homo acutus, cum illud occurreret, si ominia deorsum e regione ferrentur et,ut dixi, ad lineam, nunquam fore ut atomus altera alteram posset attingere, itaque attulit rem commenticiam: declinare dixit atomum per paulum quo nihil posset fieri minus; ita effici...

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Poizat, B. (2000). Forking. In: A Course in Model Theory. Universitext. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8622-1_15

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