Non-Declarative Sentences and the Theory of Definite Descriptions
This paper shows that Russell’s theory of descriptions gives the wrong se-mantics for definite descriptions occurring in questions and imperatives. Depending on how that theory is applied, it either assigns nonsense to per-fectly meaningful questions and assertions or it assigns meanings that di-ver...
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| Language: | English |
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Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
2004-06-01
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| Series: | Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology |
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| Online Access: | http://www.periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/principia/article/view/14704/13469 |