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    Hans Kamp — Carmelics
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    Hans Kamp

    Hans Kamp

    contemporaryFormal Semantics / Philosophy of Language

    b. 1940

    Hans Kamp is a Dutch philosopher and logician best known for developing Discourse Representation Theory (DRT), a highly influential framework for modeling meaning across multi-sentence discourse. His work spans formal semantics, tense logic, vagueness, and the philosophy of language, and has been foundational to both linguistic theory and computational semantics.

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    Notable Achievements

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    Developed Discourse Representation Theory (DRT) and Discourse Representation Structures (DRSs)

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    Pioneered formal treatments of tense and temporal reference in natural language

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    Contributed early influential work on the semantics of vagueness and context-dependence

    4

    Advanced formal theories of presupposition, anaphora, and donkey sentences

    Positions & Arguments

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    Modality & Possibility

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    The second 'broad assumption' (¬p ∧ ¬Fp) → P¬Fp is not true when p refers to a future contingency

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    The accessibility relation between DRSs is not stipulated but is entailed by the semantics of the DRS language

    Free Will & Foreknowledge

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    The second 'broad assumption' (¬p ∧ ¬Fp) → P¬Fp is not true when p refers to a future contingency

    Philosophy of Language

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    The accessibility relation between DRSs is not stipulated but is entailed by the semantics of the DRS language

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    An epistemicist must assign some small probability to each hypothesis that identifies a particular numerical threshold for oldness.

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    Formal Semantics / Philosophy of Language

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    Modality & Possibility2
    Philosophy of Language2
    Free Will & Foreknowledge1

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