Epictetus comments on Logical Pinpointing - Less Wrong
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I refer you to the Lowenheim-Skolem Theorem:
Every (countable) first-order theory that has an infinite model, has a model of size k for every infinite cardinal k. You cannot use first-order logic to exclude non-standard numbers unless you want to abandon infinite models altogether.