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Definite Descriptions (Paperback)
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Definite Descriptions (Paperback)
Series: Oxford Studies in Semantics and Pragmatics
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This book argues that definite descriptions ('the table', 'the King
of France') refer to individuals, as Gottlob Frege claimed. This
apparently simple conclusion flies in the face of philosophical
orthodoxy, which incorporates Bertrand Russell's theory that
definite descriptions are devices of quantification. Paul Elbourne
presents the first fully-argued defence of the Fregean view. He
builds an explicit fragment of English using a version of situation
semantics. He uses intrinsic aspects of his system to account for
the presupposition projection behaviour of definite descriptions, a
range of modal properties, and the problem of incompleteness. At
the same time, he draws on an unusually wide range of linguistic
and philosophical literature, from early work by Frege, Peano, and
Russell to the latest findings in linguistics, philosophy of
language, and psycholinguistics. His penultimate chapter addresses
the semantics of pronouns and offers a new and more radical version
of his earlier thesis that they too are Fregean definite
descriptions.
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