Content, Thoughts, and Definite Descriptions
Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 64 (1):167 - 220 (1990)
Abstract
In this paper,[1] I shall address the much-discussed issue of how definite descriptions should be analysed: whether they should be given a quantificational analysis in the style of Russell’s theory of descriptions,[2] or whether they should be seen instead, at least in some cases, as “genuine singular terms” or “genuine referring expressions”, whose function is to pick out a particular object in order to say something about that very object.Author's Profile
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10.1093/aristoteliansupp/64.1.167
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