to give permission or power to do adj. authorized something n. authority Syn. empower Only authorized employees are allowed in the laboratory. The dean has the authority to resolve academic problem of students. deceptively adv. to make someone think that something is adj. deceptive true or good when it is false or bad v. deceive Syn. misleadingly n. deception The magician deceptively made the rabbit disappear. Richard deceived Joe about the cost of the coat. determined adj. to be strong in one's opinion, to be firm in n. determination conviction v. determine Syn. resolute They were determined to go to graduate school. The judge determined that the man was lying. elicit v. to get the facts, to draw out, to evoke n. elicitation Syn
grammar, the same--more surprisingly--is true of ordinary proper names themselves. Here, of course, the difference is more dramatic. If you look at a definite description without referentialist bias, you can see that it has got some conceptual structure to it, in the form of independently meaningful words occurring in it that seem to contribute to its own overall meaning. So it is not too big a surprise to be told that underlying the misleadingly simple appearance of the word "the," there is quantificational material. But now we are told the same about a kind of expression that looks conceptually simple. If the Name Claim is true, then Russell's solution to the four puzzles does generalize after all--because we just replace the names by the definite Proper names: the Description Theory 35 descriptions they express and then proceed as in chapter 2; the Russellian