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· Russell (1957) replied to Strawson's critique. · Linsky (1967) surveys the Russell­Strawson dispute well. · Despite Russell's contempt for it, Meinong's view has been stoutly defended by Routley et al. (1980) and by Parsons (1980). · Donnellan (1968) replied to MacKay. Donnellan (1979) is a more extended treatment and also takes up questions of anaphora. · Taylor (1998: ch. 2) offers a fuller but still accessible survey of ana- phoric phenomena. · Ostertag (1998) contains many important papers on definite descrip- tions, as does Bezuidenhout and Reimer (2004). See also Ludlow (2007), a fine survey article. 3 Proper names: the Description Theory Overview Russell seems to have refuted the Referential Theory of Meaning for definite descriptions, by showing that descriptions are not genuinely singular terms. Perhaps that is not so surprising, since descriptions are complex expressions in that they have independently meaningful parts