Puzzles about descriptive names

Puzzles about descriptive names

This article explores Gareth Evans's idea that there are such things as descriptive names, i.e. referring expressions introduced by a definite description which have, unlike ordinary names, a descriptive content. Several ignored semantic and modal aspects of this idea are spelled out, including...

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Prif Awdur:	Kanterian, E
Fformat:	Journal article
Iaith:	English
Cyhoeddwyd:	Springer 2009
Pynciau:	Linguistics Philosophy

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