Descriptions

by Stephen Neale

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262640317
• ISBN13: 9780262640312
• Release Date: October 1993
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 302 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher