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too abstract and disembodied a fashion, forgetting how they are actually used
by flesh-and-blood people in concrete conversational practice.
Keith Donnellan notes that, even if Russell is right about some uses of
descriptions, he has ignored a common sort of case in which a description is
used "referentially," merely to indicate a particular person or thing, regard-
less of that referent's attributes.
Finally, there are further uses of descriptions, called "anaphoric" uses,
which may defy Russellian treatment.
10 Reference and referring
Singular terms
In English or any other natural language, the paradigmatic referring devices
are singular terms, expressions that purport to denote or designate particular
individual people, places, or other objects (as opposed to general terms such
as "dog" or "brown" that can apply to more than one thing). Singular terms
include proper names ("Jane," "Winston Churchill," "Djakarta," "7," 3:17
p.m
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