Descriptions (Revised) Regina F Bendix Author/Contributor(s): de Beauvoir

Author/Contributor(s): de Beauvoir

against the world of authority and perhaps the world itself

and how quickly Europe's markets adapt to a single currency

From student movements to staff unions

Descriptions (Revised) Regina F Bendix Author/Contributor(s): de BeauvoirAuthor Contributor(s): Neale, Stephen Publisher: MIT Press Date: 10 04 1993 Binding: Paperback Condition: NEW In 1905, Bertrand Russell argued that certain logical puzzles are solved if definite descriptions are treated as quantified expressions rather than referential expression, as Frege had thought. Since then, philosophers and, more recently, linguists have debated the relevance of this paradigm to the study of the semantics of natural language.