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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Bibliografiske detaljer
Hovedforfatter:	Kanterian, E
Format:	Journal article
Sprog:	English
Udgivet:	Springer 2009
Fag:	Linguistics Philosophy

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