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The essence of the predicative semantic formalism is the following:
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A specification is a predicate whose free variables represent observable quantities of interest. Any values for the variables that satisfy the predicate represent something that satisfies the specification; any values that do not satisfy the predicate represent something that does not satisfy the specification.
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A program is an executable specification of computer behavior.
There are various ways to describe computer behavior. In the paper “Predicative Methodology” we studied a traditional way: in terms of the initial and final state of memory. We now turn our attention to the specification of communicating processes. The quantities of interest here are communication sequences.
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Hehner, E.C.R. (1987). Predicative Communications. In: Broy, M. (eds) Logic of Programming and Calculi of Discrete Design. NATO ASI Series, vol 36. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-87374-4_5
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