Descriptions
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Descriptions
（Bradford book）
MIT Press, c1990
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Bibliography: p. [269]-281
Includes index
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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 of philosophy" 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. "Descriptions "presents an illuminating discussion of the history of the Theory of Descriptions, of the central issues confronting it, of its place in a general theory of qua natural language quantification and of its relevance to contemporary semantic theories. Neale provides a systematic criticism of the traditional arguments against a unitary Russellian analysis of descriptions and presents a general theory of the semantics of pronouns which he uses to solve a variety of anaphoric puzzles, including those created by donkey sentences. Stephen Neale is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University. A Bradford Book
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