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June 9, 2025, Paper: "An earlier version of this paper, entitled “To Infinity and Beyond: Scaling Economic Theories via Logical Compactness,” appeared as a one-page abstract in the Proceedings of the 21st ACM Conference on Economics and Computation. We thank David Ahn, Bob Anderson, Morgane Austern, Archishman Chakrabortyz, Chris Chambers, Yunseo Choi, Henry Cohn, Piotr Dworczak, Andrew Ellis, Tamás Fleiner, Drew Fudenberg, Wayne Gao, Jerry Green, Joseph Halpern, Ron Holzman, Ravi Jagadeesan, M. Ali Khan, David Laibson, Rida Laraki, Bar Light, Elliot Lipnowski, Ce Liu, George Mailath, Michael Mandler, Paul Milgrom, Ankur Moitra, Yoram Moses, Juan Pereyra, Marek Pycia, Debraj Ray, John Rehbeck, Phil Reny, Joseph Root, Ariel Rubinstein, Dov Samet, Chris Shannon, Tomasz Strzalecki, Sergiy Verstyuk, Shing-Tung Yau, Bill Zame, and numerous seminar audiences for helpful comments. Gonczarowski was supported in part by the Adams Fellowship Program of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities; his work was supported in part by ISF grants 1435/14, 317/17, and 1841/14 administered by the Israeli Academy of Sciences; by the United States–Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF grant 2014389); and by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant 740282), and under the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007–2013) / ERC grant number 337122. Kominers gratefully acknowledges the support of the National Science Foundation (grant SES-1459912), as well as the Ng Fund and the Mathematics in Economics Research Fund of the Harvard Center of Mathematical Sciences and Applications. Shorrer was supported by a grant from the United States–Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF grants 2016015 and 2022417). Part of this work was conducted during the Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute Fall 2023 program on the Mathematics and Computer Science of Market and Mechanism Design, which was supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant DMS-1928930 and by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation under grant G-2021-16778. Parts of the work of Gonczarowski were carried out while at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, at Tel Aviv University, and at Microsoft Research."