TY - GEN T1 - Descriptions A1 - Neale, Stephen, 1958- LA - English PP - Cambridge, Mass. PB - MIT Press YR - 1990 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocm42330503 AB - In 1905, Bertrand Russell argued that certain logical puzzles are solved if definite descriptions are treated as quantified expressions rather than referential expression, as Frege had thought. Since then, philosophers and, more recently, linguists have debated the relevance of this paradigm to the study of the semantics of natural language. In Descriptions, Stephen Neale provides the first sustained defense and extension of Russell's theory, placing it in the center of a theory of singular and nonsingular descriptive phrases and anaphoric pronouns -- Provided by the publisher. OP - 286 NO - "A Bradford book." CN - P106 .N36 1990eb SN - 0585038260 SN - 9780585038261 SN - 0262140454 SN - 9780262140454 KW - Language and languages : Philosophy. KW - Description (Philosophy) KW - Anaphora (Linguistics) KW - Description (Philosophie) KW - Anaphore. KW - Langage et langues : Philosophie. KW - descriptions (documents) KW - descriptive note. KW - description (activity) KW - PHILOSOPHY : Epistemology. KW - Language and languages : Philosophy KW - Anapher : Syntax KW - Deskriptive Linguistik KW - Kennzeichnung KW - Sprachphilosophie KW - Natuurlijke taal. KW - Semantiek. KW - Anafora. KW - Language : Philosophy ER -