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Before his death in March, 1976, A. H. Lightstone delivered the
manu script for this book to Plenum Press. Because he died before
the editorial work on the manuscript was completed, I agreed (in
the fall of 1976) to serve as a surrogate author and to see the
project through to completion. I have changed the manuscript as
little as possible, altering certain passages to correct
oversights. But the alterations are minor; this is Lightstone's
book. H. B. Enderton vii Preface This is a treatment of the
predicate calculus in a form that serves as a foundation for
nonstandard analysis. Classically, the predicates and variables of
the predicate calculus are kept distinct, inasmuch as no variable
is also a predicate; moreover, each predicate is assigned an order,
a unique natural number that indicates the length of each tuple to
which the predicate can be prefixed. These restrictions are dropped
here, in order to develop a flexible, expressive language capable
of exploiting the potential of nonstandard analysis. To assist the
reader in grasping the basic ideas of logic, we begin in Part I by
presenting the propositional calculus and statement systems. This
provides a relatively simple setting in which to grapple with the
some times foreign ideas of mathematical logic. These ideas are
repeated in Part II, where the predicate calculus and semantical
systems are studied."
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