Descriptions (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780262640312)

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.

Author: Stephen Neale
ISBN-10: 0262640317
ISBN-13: 9780262640312
Publisher: MIT Press
Language: English
Published: 10/04/1993
Pages: 302
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.91lbs
Size: 8.96h x 5.88w x 0.63d