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The Philosophical Review (2015) 124 (1): 59–117.
Published: 01 January 2015
...; they are predicates that are true of their bearers. When a name appears as a bare singular in argument position, it really occupies the predicate position of what in this essay is called a denuded definite description : a definite description with an unpronounced definite article. Sloat provided good evidence...
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The Philosophical Review (2008) 117 (2): 314–316.
Published: 01 April 2008
... descriptions, proper names, and pronouns are the same—they have the
same syntactic as well as semantic structure. They are definite descriptions,
with the definite article THE taking two arguments, an index andaNoun
Phrase. Elbourne’s proposal targets two dominant views, one in linguistics, the
other...
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The Philosophical Review (2020) 129 (1): 53–94.
Published: 01 January 2020
... descriptivism . Generally speaking, this is the view that the truth-conditional contribution of a name is some kind of descriptive element involving a naming constraint. 4 For example, the meaning of the name in ‘Del Naja’ (6) is sometimes argued to be equivalent to a definite description whose restrictor...
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The Philosophical Review (2008) 117 (4): 525–554.
Published: 01 October 2008
... to the description theory (“descriptivism names are seman-
tic kin to definite descriptions.3 Others (such as Burge [1973]) have
1. The name ‘Ernest’ occurring in the construction is mentioned rather than
used.
2. See also Grice 1969, Donnellan 1974, Salmon...
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The Philosophical Review (2017) 126 (2): 219–240.
Published: 01 April 2017
... to what Daniel Rothschild (2007) calls role-type definite descriptions . 16 According to Rothschild, role-type definite descriptions are those descriptions used in a context in which it is part of the common ground that there is exactly one individual satisfying the descriptive content across...
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The Philosophical Review (2008) 117 (1): 99–117.
Published: 01 January 2008
...
a common semantic feature as a result of which they exhibit the same
differences in behavior with definite descriptions is unaffected. Hence,
the evidence that all occurrences of complex demonstratives share a uni-
fied semantics (contrary to the +DRCD that is the conjunction of DRCD
and the claim...
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The Philosophical Review (2011) 120 (2): 151–205.
Published: 01 April 2011
.... It is worth noting that one view of the semantics of definite descriptions that is
rejected in “On Denoting” would also resolve the puzzle. This is Russell’s view in the
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The Theory of Descriptions explains why the phrase...
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The Philosophical Review (2022) 131 (3): 373–378.
Published: 01 July 2022
... uses of pictures, the subject of chapter 4, are distinguished from the attributive uses discussed above, following Keith S. Donellan’s (1966) classic reading of definite descriptions. Referential uses function to deliver an object, rather than a description of an object, to the thought expressed...
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The Philosophical Review (2002) 111 (4): 497–537.
Published: 01 October 2002
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pointing or hand gesture), and “pure indexicals,” which do not (like ‘I’
or ‘tomorrow4 Moreover, according to Kaplan, demonstrations
function rather like context-dependent definite descriptions: when
performed (“mounted”) in a particular context, a demonstration takes
on a representational content...
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The Philosophical Review (2002) 111 (4): 605–609.
Published: 01 October 2002
... expression was employed
in Gareth Evans’s 1979, where Evans argued from the possibility of quantifying
into definite descriptions (as in his example ‘The father of each girl is good to
her’) to the conclusion that definite descriptions are not referring expressions.
Evans concluded that the existence...
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The Philosophical Review (2004) 113 (3): 432–434.
Published: 01 July 2004
..., no definite description. This problem is not of
marginal importance. Although he initially states that the presumed descrip-
tive material only “generally” accompanies the ostensive act, Berger later insists
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The Philosophical Review (2013) 122 (4): 577–617.
Published: 01 October 2013
... that the quantifiers containing the indicative mood phrases take wide scope outside the conditional and so are unaffected by its modal force. Thus, the definite description that includes an embedded indicative phrase in (7) takes wide scope: (7) If it weren't raining, the lake we are looking at would look blue...
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The Philosophical Review (2019) 128 (1): 63–105.
Published: 01 January 2019
... substitution instance for a sentence like (3a) is not (3b), but rather (4) Sally hopes for the proposition that Fido barks. I claim that the definite description in (4) complements the very same verb that occurs in (3a)—the two-word lexeme hopes for —but that the preposition for is suppressed in (3a...
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The Philosophical Review (2018) 127 (2): 151–196.
Published: 01 April 2018
...- or a quarter-inch scale, we get readings that are intermediate in strength between r 1 and r 11 . Keith Donnellan (1966) observed that definite descriptions appear to have what he calls a “referential use.” He argued, contra Russell, that definite descriptions used in this way pick out...
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The Philosophical Review (2015) 124 (3): 430–437.
Published: 01 July 2015
... definite description ensures that we can add to worlds verifying a given claim in which it occurs unembedded in ways that falsify the claim. We seem, then, to have a family of ‘temperature’ and ‘caloric fluid’ truths that are neither positive nor antipositive, with no clear way to scry such truths...
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The Philosophical Review (2002) 111 (3): 473–478.
Published: 01 July 2002
... at all) instead. This differentiates them from ordinary
definite descriptions and makes them akin to proper names. Romeo could sin-
cerely insist:
(2) Juliet is and always will be the sun—even at times in the future when lik-
ening a girl to the sun would be a way of saying her company...
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The Philosophical Review (2018) 127 (4): 433–485.
Published: 01 October 2018
... ; Yalcin 2015 ; Rothschild and Klinedinst 2015 ; and Mandelkern 2017, chap. 1 . Lennertz 2015 is also relevant. 2. In what follows, I follow Frege (1984 [1892]) in treating definite descriptions as singular terms, translating them into our formal language using individual constants. But I...
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The Philosophical Review (2004) 113 (1): 89–100.
Published: 01 January 2004
... and Phenomenological Research 44 : 227 -39. ____. 1980 . A More General Theory of Definite Descriptions. Philosophical Review 89 : 607 -24. Simons, P. 1987 . Parts: A Study in Ontology . New York: Oxford University Press. Zimmerman, D. 1995 . Theories of Masses and Problems of Constitution...
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The Philosophical Review (2001) 110 (4): 635–638.
Published: 01 October 2001
.... To begin with, I
think this both (i) does not appreciate Russell’s conception of the structure of
propositions expressed with definite descriptions and (ii) insufficiently consid-
ers the sort of empirical content indefinite thoughts—such as, an F is G—can
enjoy; but let this pass too. The Fregean...
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The Philosophical Review (2014) 123 (3): 371–374.
Published: 01 July 2014
... by anaphoric links and reference borrowing, as in Kripke's causal account. Reflexive contents are discussed in relation to the use of singular terms, as will be exemplified below. Demonstratives, indexicals, names, and definite descriptions are treated in one chapter each, and one more is devoted...
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