 Crane can hold the conjunction of 1 and 2 because he interprets aboutness in a non-relational way. He can hold the conjunction of 2 and 3 because he denies that “there are” and its cognates (both in natural and formal languages) are ontologically committing in any way. (For this reason, I call this the de-ontologization strategy.) He can hold the conjunction of 4 and 5 because he endorses a positive free logic, i.e., the view that there may be true as well as false sentences of the form \(Fb\), where “\(b\)” stands for a non-referring singular term.