This collection of essays is dedicated to 'Joe' Karel Lambert. The
contributors are all personally affected to Joe in some way or
other, but they are definitely not the only ones. Whatever excuses
there are - there are some -, the editors apologize to whomever
they have neglected. But even so the collection displays how
influential Karel Lambert has been, personally and through his
teaching and his writings. The display is in alphabetical order -
with one exception: Bas van Fraassen, being about the earliest
student of Karel Lambert, opens the collection with some
reminiscences. Naturally, one of the focal points of this volume is
Lambert's logical thinking and (or: freed of) ontological thinking.
Free logic is intimately connected with description theory. Bas van
Fraassen gives a survey of the development of the area, and Charles
Daniels points to difficulties with definite descriptions in modal
contexts and stories. Peter Woodruff addresses the relation between
free logic and supervaluation semantics, presenting a novel
condition which recovers desirable metatheoretic properties for
free logic under that semantics. Terence Parsons shows how free
logic can be utilized in interpreting sentences as purporting to
denote events (true ones succeed and false ones fail) and how this
helps to understand natural language.
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