Editing Transfer principle (section)

{{short description|Concept in model theory}}
{{more footnotes|date=January 2012}}

In [[model theory]], a '''transfer principle''' states that all statements of some language that are true for some structure are true for another structure. One of the first examples was [[algebraic geometry and analytic geometry#The Lefschetz principle|the Lefschetz principle]], which states that any sentence in the [[first-order logic|first-order language]] of [[Field (mathematics)|fields]] that is true for the [[complex number]]s is also true for any [[algebraically closed field]] of [[characteristic (algebra) |characteristic 0]].