This monograph is designed to provide an introduction to the
principal areas of tense logic. Many of the developments in this
ever-growing field have been intentionally excluded to fulfill this
aim. Length also dictated a choice between the alternative
notations of A. N. Prior and Nicholas Rescher - two pioneers of the
subject. I choose Prior's because of the syntactical parallels with
the language it symbolizes and its close ties with other branches
of logi cal theory, especially modal logic. The first chapter
presents a wider view of the material than later chapters. Several
lines of development are consequently not followed through the
remainder of the book, most notably metric systems. Although it is
import ant to recognize that the unadorned Prior-symbolism can be
enriched in vari ous ways it is an advanced subject as to how to
actually carry off these enrichments. Readers desiring more
information are referred to the appropri ate literature.
Specialists will notice that only the first of several quantifi
cational versions of tense logic is proven complete in the final
chapter. Again constraints of space are partly to blame. The proof
for the 'star' systems is wildly complex and at the time of this
writing is not yet ready for publi cation."
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