Free Logic : Selected Essays.

Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 Russell's Version of the Theory of Definite Descriptions -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. RUSSELL'S THEORY IN PRINCIPIA MATHEMATICA -- 3. RUSSELL'S THEORY IN 'ON DENOTING' -- 2 Existential Import, 'E!' and 'The' -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. ANOTHER EXPLANATION -- 3. ON THE DEFINITION OF E!(t) -- 4. DEFINITE DESCRIPTIONS -- 5. THE DEFINITE DESCRIPTION PARADOX -- 3 The Reduction of Two Paradoxes and the Significance Thereof -- 1. THE CONJECTURE -- 2. THE PROOF -- 3. A NEW EXPLANATION OF LOGICAL THEORIES OF DEFINITE DESCRIPTIONS -- 4. SOME BENEFITS OF FREEDOM -- 4 The Hilbert-Bernays Theory of Definite Descriptions -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. SYNTAX OF H-BTDD -- 3. SEMANTICS OF H-BTDD -- 4. ASSESSMENT OF H-BTDD -- 5. A NEO-HBTDD -- 6. ASSESSMENT OF STDD -- 5 Foundations of the Hierarchy of Positive Free Definite Description Theories* -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. POSITIVE FREE DEFINITE DESCRIPTION THEORIES: PRELIMINARY REMARKS -- 3. POSITIVE FREE DEFINITE DESCRIPTION THEORIES: THE FORMAL LANGUAGE -- SEMANTICS I: FREE LOGIC -- 5. SEMANTICS II: @COMPLEX PREDICATES AND SKELETONS -- 4. SEMANTICS III: DEFINITE DESCRIPTIONS -- 6. A MINIMAL SYSTEM -- 7. A MINIMAL DEFINITE DESCRIPTION THEORY AND UNIFORM COMPLETENESS PROOFS -- 8. APPENDIX -- 6 Predication and Extensionality -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. PREDICATION AND EXTENSIONALITY -- 3. SOME IMPLICATIONS -- 4. FIXING THE THEORY -- 7 Nonextensionality -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. CO-EXTENSIVE PREDICATES REVISITED -- 3. PREDICATES AND GENERAL TERMS -- 8 The Philosophical Foundations of Free Logic -- 1. WHAT FREE LOGIC IS AND WHAT IT ISN'T -- 2. WHY FREE LOGIC? -- 3. THE IMPORTANCE OF FREE LOGIC -- 9 Logical Truth and Microphysics -- 1. LOGICAL TRUTH AND TRUTH-VALUE GAPS -- 2. A REVISED ACCOUNT OF LOGICAL TRUTH.

3. TRUTH-VALUE GAPS VERSUS ANOTHER TRUTH VALUE -- 4. RECONSRUCTING REICHENBACH'S INTERPRETATION OF ELEMENTARY MICROPHYSICAL STATEMENTS -- 5. DODGING SOME BULLETS.