On the philosophical foundations of free logic

Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 24 (2):147 – 203 (1981)
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The essay outlines the character of free logic, and motivation for its construction and development. It details some technical achievements of high philosophical interest, but urges that the role of existence assumptions in logic is still not fully understood, that unresolved old problems, both technical and philosophical, abound, and presents some new problems of considerable philosophical import in free logic.

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10.1080/00201748108601931

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