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    It is not the case that If any sort in a many-sorted signature is empty, the canonical Henkin model construction fails to produce a legitimate interpretation for quantifiers over that sort.

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    • 1.Empty sorts are semantically coherent: ∀x∈∅.φ(x) is vacuously true and ∃x∈∅.φ(x) is false—both legitimate truth values.
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    • 2.Henkin construction can be modified to handle empty sorts by restricting quantifiers to inhabited sorts or using partial models.
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    • 3.Many-sorted logic assumes sorts are independent; one empty sort doesn't prevent meaningful interpretation of inhabited sorts.
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    • 1.Henkin construction requires witnesses for existential formulas; empty sorts provide no witnesses, making quantifier satisfaction undefined.
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    • 2.Standard semantics demands each quantified variable range over non-empty domain; empty sorts violate this foundational requirement.
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    • 3.Formulas like ∃x.φ(x) become vacuously false over empty sorts, collapsing the distinction between falsity and semantic pathology.
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