Definite Descriptions

By Paul Elbourne

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Publish Date

2013

Publisher

Oxford University Press, Incorporated

Language

eng

Pages

288

Description:

Paul Elbourne defends the Fregean view that definite descriptions ('the table', 'the King of France') refer to individuals, and offers a new and radical account of the semantics of pronouns. He draws on a wide range of work, from Frege, Peano, and Russell to the latest findings in linguistics philosophy of language, and psycholinguistics.

subjects: Frege, gottlob, 1848-1925, Linguistics, Philosophy, Definiteness (Linguistics), Description (Philosophy)