Forms of Completeness
The real numbers can be defined synthetically as an ordered field satisfying some version of the completeness axiom. Different versions of this axiom are all equivalent, in the sense that any ordered field that satisfies one form of completeness satisfies all of them. When the real numbers are instead constructed using a model, completeness becomes a theorem or collection of theorems.
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