Situations and Individuals

by Paul Elbourne

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 026255061X
• ISBN13: 9780262550611
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.4" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher