Descriptions (Bradford Book) - Softcover

Neale, Stephen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0262640317 ISBN 13: 9780262640312

Verlag: MIT Press, 1993

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In 1905, Bertrand Russell argued that certain logical puzzles are solved if definite descriptions are treated as quantified expressions rather than referential expression, as Frege had thought. Since then, philosophers and, more recently, linguists have debated the relevance of this paradigm to the study of the semantics of natural language. In Descriptions, Stephen Neale provides the first sustained defense and extension of Russell's theory, placing it in the center of a theory of singular and nonsingular descriptive phrases and anaphoric pronouns.

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Stephen Neale is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley.

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In Descriptions, Stephen Neale provides the first sustained defense, extension, and application of Russell's Theory of Descriptions. He provides a systematic criticism of traditional arguments against this 'paradigm of philosophy' and lucidly demonstrates its importance to contemporary theories of syntax and semantics and to philosophical inquiry.

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• Verlag: MIT Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1993
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0262640317
• ISBN 13: 9780262640312
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 302
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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