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and only if there exists a natural number and a finite sequence of terms , possibly in an expansion of the language, with

: and ,

such that

:

is valid. If it is valid, it is called a Herbrand disjunction for

:

Informally: a formula in prenex form containing only existential quantifiers is provable (valid) in first-order logic if and only if a disjunction composed of

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