Sentence examples for definite description from inspiring English sources

Russell's theory is best thought of as providing a contextual elimination of the definite description, not a contextual definition of it.

Those situations have just one donkey in them, and they can thus be used as resource situations for the definite description the donkey or a corresponding descriptive pronoun.

The pronoun it in 25(a) is an instance of a descriptive pronoun that is interpreted like the corresponding definite description in 25(b).

Donnellan (1966) argues that a referential use of a definite description refers to a known entity, whereas an attributive use of a definite description refers to an unknown or uncertain entity.

A definite description and a "rigid designator" (via Kripke's Naming and Necessity) refer to an entity in "all possible worlds".

The earliest known definite description of stage lighting may be found in Architectura Civilis (1628; "Civil Architecture"), by Joseph Furttenbach (also spelled Furtenbach).

It can be fixed by pointing at something (that baby) or by a definite description (the baby with the big head).

Kripke is right that reference is not determined by a bundle of descriptions, even though it may be fixed by a definite description in an initial baptism.

Russell (1905), then, discusses definite descriptions and how a denoting phrase denotes one and only one entity (and if the definite description does not refer to an entity, then the sentence is false).

for Russell's theory of definite description).

Their logical function is that of a definite description.