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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.
Foundational research focuses on the theory, but theories are to be
related also to other theories, experiments, facts in their
domains, data, and to their uses in applications, whether of
prediction, control, or explanation. A theory is to be identified
through its class of models, but not so narrowly as to disallow
these roles. The language of science is to be studied separately,
with special reference to the relations listed above, and to the
consequent need for resources other than for theoretical
description. Peculiar to the foundational level are questions of
completeness (specifically in the representation of measurement),
and of interpretation (a topic beset with confusions of truth and
evidence, and with inappropriate metalinguistic abstraction).
Foundational research focuses on the theory, but theories are to be
related also to other theories, experiments, facts in their
domains, data, and to their uses in applications, whether of
prediction, control, or explanation. A theory is to be identified
through its class of models, but not so narrowly as to disallow
these roles. The language of science is to be studied separately,
with special reference to the relations listed above, and to the
consequent need for resources other than for theoretical
description. Peculiar to the foundational level are questions of
completeness (specifically in the representation of measurement),
and of interpretation (a topic beset with confusions of truth and
evidence, and with inappropriate metalinguistic abstraction).
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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