Situations and Individuals Tapa blanda - 2005

Cumberland, Rhode Island, U.S.A.: MiT Press, 2005. Book. Very Good Minus. Soft cover. Light soiling on endpaper. Nice, tight, unmarked copy. "In Situations and Individuals, Paul Elbourne argues that the natural language expressions that have been taken to refer to individuals -- pronouns, proper names, and definite descriptions -- have a common syntax and semantics, roughly that of definite descriptions as construed in the tradition of Frege. In the course of his argument, Elbourne shows that proper names have previously undetected donkey anaphoric readings. This is contrary to previous theorizing and, if true, would undermine what philosophers call the direct reference theory (which holds that the sole contribution of a proper name to the truth conditions of a sentence is an individual) as well as the related doctrine that proper names are rigid designators.Elbourne begins by addressing donkey anaphora, relating other concerns about pronouns to the solution of this notorious problem. His… Leer más

The MIT Press, 10/7/2005. Illustrated. paperback. Like New. LIKE NEW!!! Has a red or black remainder mark on bottom/exterior edge of pages.

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