Thesis
Descriptive names
- Alternative title:
- a contribution to the semantics of referring expressions
- Abstract:
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A theory of descriptive names is developed and defended against several objections. Descriptive names pose an interesting challenge to any theory of reference, since they possess both features of proper names and definite descriptions, i.e. of expressions which are often considered to be radically different. These features are referentiality and descriptive sense. The thesis takes as its point of departure Gareth Evans's theory of descriptive names, improves upon it and discusses several o...
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Bibliographic Details
- Publication date:
- 2006
- Type of award:
- DPhil
- Level of award:
- Doctoral
- Awarding institution:
- University of Oxford
Item Description
- Language:
- English
- Subjects:
- UUID:
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- Local pid:
- td:602157068
- Source identifiers:
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602157068
- Deposit date:
- 2013-01-18
Terms of use
- Copyright holder:
- Kanterian, Edward
- Copyright date:
- 2006
- Notes:
- The digital copy of this thesis has been made available thanks to the generosity of Dr Leonard Polonsky
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