Descriptions /
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...
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Cambridge, Mass. :
MIT Press,
©1990.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- The Theory of Descriptions
- Context and Communication
- Scope, Substitutivity, and Opacity
- Pronouns and Anaphora
- Further Notes on Descriptive Anaphora.