Can we describe o-minimal theories in topological terms?

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Talking about o-minimal theories in topological terms.

  • Is there a standard way to talk about whether a given structure is o-minimal or not in topological terms?

I read about o-minimal theories the other day in A Shorter Model Theory in an exercise on page 29. The definition is compatible with the model-theoretic definition given in the Wikipedia article.

As stated in the Wikipedia article, a theory is o-minimal if and only if all of its models are o-minimal structures.

The first thing that I noticed is the definition appears to have a topological look and feel to it.


I tried to rephrase this definition in topological terms by making the definable sets clopen and generating a topology. But this construction fails for countable models where every singleton is nameable and reduces to a trivial topology where every subset is open and closed.