The Attributive Use and Russell’s Paradigm
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attributive use, definite descriptions, incomplete descriptions, Russell’s theory, Strawson, DonnellanAbstrakt
According to the prevailing view, Russell’s theory of descriptions provides an adequate semantic account of sentences with definite descriptions in the attributive use. The author challenges this assumption. Firstly, he presents two general ‘Strawsonian’ objections to Russell’s theory, which, as he argues, are valid in the case of attributive assertions. Those are arguments against the so called existential reading and the uniqueness-reading of an attributively used sentence of the form “The F is G”. Finally, the author presents his own objection which appeals to the fact that the Russellian analysis does not account for an intuitive inferential property of attributive assertions.Pobrania
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2013-06-01
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Rostworowski, W. (2013). The Attributive Use and Russell’s Paradigm . Filozofia Nauki, 21(2), 59–68. Pobrano z https://www.fn.uw.edu.pl/index.php/fn/article/view/716
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