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Descriptions

Name: Descriptions
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ISBN: 9780262640312

Stephen Neale

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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.Stephen Neale is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley.

Request Code : ZLIBIO730319

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Year:

1993

Publisher:

MIT Press

Language:

English

ISBN 10:

0262640317

ISBN 13:

9780262640312