Why universal closure?

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In logic, why do we talk of universal closure of a formula, and don't consider its "existential closure" (as far as I know)?

I guess that one of the reasons may be that interesting systems like PA are written down much more succinctly and naturally without the universal quantifiers. I think there might be more to it than that, though.

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If we want to talk about existentially quantified things, we often want to refer to them by name, so it's usually a good idea to name them by Skolemisation: instead of $∃x.P(x)$ introduce a constant symbol $c$ and write $P(c)$; instead of $∀x.∃y.P(x,y)$ introduce a function symbol $f$ and write $∀x.P(x,f(x))$. This limits the number of situations in ordinary mathematics where taking the existential closure would come in handy.

[This entire answer was written by user Z. A. K.]