Keelefilosoofia raamat
But I shall leave the topic
at this point.
A few further issues have arisen in recent years. For example, it has been
questioned whether the use of a definite description does really entail even
contextual uniqueness (see Szabó 2000, 2003; Abbott 2003).
More generally, the relations between definite and indefinite descriptions
have come under scrutiny (Szabó 2000 again; Ludlow and Segal 2004.)
Plural descriptions have been investigated by Sharvy (1980), Neale (1990)
and Brogaard (2007) among others.
Summary
· Singular terms refer to individual objects in the world. But to suppose
that that is all they do leads to logical puzzles.
· Russell argued that sentences containing definite descriptions should
be analyzed as triples of general statements.
· Russell defended this Theory of Descriptions both directly and by
appeal to its affording solutions to the four logical puzzles.
· Strawson argues that Russell views sentences and their logical proper-
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