theory of descriptions

Russell proposed to resolve this puzzle via his theory of descriptions.

This is the foundation of Russell's theory of descriptions as he proceeds to illustrate.

This theory of descriptions was crucial to logical atomism, as Russell believed that language mirrored reality.

A famous example of conceptual analysis at its best is Bertrand Russell's theory of descriptions.

Russell put forward his theory of descriptions in order to solve a number of problems in the philosophy of language.

Russell's theory of descriptions - at Oxford University's Introduction to Logic.

According to the theory of descriptions, speakers are not committed to asserting the existence of referents for the names they use.

The theory of descriptions is the philosopher Bertrand Russell's most significant contribution to the philosophy of language.

Russell's theory of descriptions has been profoundly influential in the philosophy of language and the analysis of definite descriptions.

A significant contribution to philosophy of language is Russell's theory of descriptions, set out in On Denoting (Mind, 1905).

Russell's theory of descriptions is a way of logically analyzing objects in a meaningful way regardless of that object's existence.

(See Bertrand Russell's theory of descriptions.)

However, Russell himself thought highly of the vast majority of Meinong's work and, until formulating his theory of descriptions, held similar views about non-existent objects.

It is also known as Russell's Theory of Descriptions (commonly abbreviated as RTD).

Bertrand Russell's theory of descriptions was initially put forth in his 1905 essay "On Denoting", published in the journal of philosophy Mind.

Russell offered his theory of descriptions in part as a way of defining a proper name, the definition being given by a definite description that "picks out" exactly one individual.

One of the fundamental puzzles that Russell hopes to resolve with the theory of descriptions is the problem of non-referring expressions or, as they are now called, negative existentials.

So it is yet another of Tom Stoppard's singular triumphs that he earns sincere laughs during dense lectures about, among other things, Bertrand Russell's theory of descriptions.

Earlier journal papers are about Austin's correspondence theory of truth, causation, time, Russell's theory of descriptions, and John Stuart Mill's essay On Liberty.

Strawson first became well known with his article "On Referring" (1950), a criticism of Bertrand Russell's Theory of Descriptions (see also Definite descriptions).

Defined term constructions are neatly handled by (possibly merely implicitly) using the theory of descriptions: a term (the x such that ) must be assigned the same value under as the variable x.

Russell's Theory of Descriptions special issue of Mind celebrating the 100th anniversary of Russell's "On Denoting" in which the theory of descriptions was first presented.

Thus, "The present king of France" is analyzed, according to Russell's theory of descriptions, as "There exists an individual who is currently the king of France, there is only one such individual, and that individual is bald."

Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy is a book by Bertrand Russell, published in 1919, written in part to exposit in a less technical way the main ideas of his and Whitehead's Principia Mathematica (1910-1913), including the theory of descriptions.

He is one of the world's leading authorities on Bertrand Russell's Theory of Descriptions, on the philosophies of Paul Grice and Donald Davidson, and on the intricacies of formal arguments in logic known as slingshots.