Kaplan and Marti on definite descriptions

Autor:	E. V. Borisov
Jazyk:	English<br />Russian
Rok vydání:	2023
Předmět:	definite description referential use of definite descriptions proper name direct reference theory History (General) and history of Europe Economics as a science HB71-74 Newspapers AN
Zdroj:	Омский научный вестник: Серия "Общество. История. Современность", Vol 8, Iss 4, Pp 84-88 (2023)
Druh dokumentu:	article
ISSN:	2542-0488 2541-7983
DOI:	10.25206/2542-0488-2023-8-4-84-88
Popis:	Donnellan’s distinction between referential and attributive uses of definite descriptions gave rise to controversy between semantic and pragmatic accounts of referentially used descriptions. Kaplan adumbrated and Marti elaborated in detail a semantic account that assimilates referentially used definite descriptions with proper names in the sense of the theory of direct reference. I argue that the evidence Kaplan-Marti theory relies on is inappropriate, and conclude that KaplanMarti theory has no advantage over the pragmatic account of referential use in Donnellan’s sense.
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