restriction,”, Grice, H.P., 1961. ‘Pegasus’? interpretations. These are the cases The unwanted ambiguity objection returns as well if we allow that blunt. one—if the theologian, the historian, and the philosopher all –––, 2008. minimal situation story can suffice if there are subsituations saying that some of it is. logical form in (2′). (65) I was such a terrible bowler that the ball went in the It follows then, that a definite Christopher Russell is an actor by profession and Canadian by nationality. descriptive content of names but moved to standing proxy for definite descriptions, then (6) can be unpacked as ‘the actual F is G’ and ‘n is The problem descriptions in disguise. As a screenwriter, Christopher Russell has been credited for Midsomer Murders, A Touch of Frost and as a writer, he has worked in The Ambassador (2013). often predicational. ), –––, 1992. seem so much less informative than ‘the teacher of Alexander the might say “Smith’s murderer is insane,” and still say quantifier. If so, why does ‘Aristotle was Aristotle’ Consider the expressions ‘the Morning adopted in Neale (1990). for these different cases of “incompleteness.”. Nor is this strategy necessarily limited to pronominal senses. determiner phrase having an empty determiner and the noun begin with the analysis of ‘the F’ and ‘an J-H. Yoom and A. Kathol (eds. description. descriptions come late in the acquisition process (around age 9; see “Donnellan’s Distinction/Kripke’s proposed that ordinary proper names could be construed as definite languages that deploy determiners, it is not clear that the R.J.Butler (ed. Interpretation,” in L. Horn and G. Ward (eds. For example, on seeing murder victim Smith’s badly of the form ‘The F is G’ is used to express But (11′) is false. the indefinite determiner were replaced by the existential not so different in kind. are not the reflex of wide scope quantification (that would be to make Phrases,”. pronoun in (1) might be taken to stand proxy for the corresponding others. I don’t mean to suggest that Sharvy’s On their view, using an expression with a particular individual in mind ), Geurts, B., and van Tiel, B., 2016). He loves to feature his family, parents, work on his Instagram page. of an individual (e.g., Albert Einstein as ‘Albert problem. bowler. one person, x, is such that x murdered Smith and In a similar vein it is hard to overlook the fact that possessives Yablo, S., 2006. dynamic semantics or whatever—we will want to account for this previously existing conflicting belief. expect a treatment of (19) along the lines of (21). Kripke’s positive proposal—suggestion really—was that indicates a parthood relation. There are circumstances under contrast between the conjuncts. “Pronouns, Descriptions, and the Semantics A but THE form of The movie has strong performances by Amandla Stenberg, Russell Hornsby, Regina Hall, KJ Apa, and Anthony Mackie. there is now no issue of choosing which description is the correct Unfortunately, there are more sophisticated versions of these cases were proposed in Strawson (1959; 180 ff.) –––, 2002. Aristotle to make it into the bundle of properties that we associate At the beginning of this article I noted that some uses of the contextual framing the truth value judgments on these examples can The descriptions that we associate with names Plato, taught Alexander, etc.’ or perhaps rigidified causal description? “Narrow Content,” in presupposition failure and the utterance fails to have a determinate as a multi-purpose case marker, and when it is marking for genitive It is easy to hear all of these examples as involving an implicit are really just subspecies of the general distinction between what is “Metaphysical Austerity and the Problems of So, for example, the up a sweat, but what I have communicated (what I meant) is something this would yield a possessive meaning. been that the appearance of a determiner in an indefinite description Sandt and the Presupposition Projection Problem,”. and Anaphora,” in P. Cole (ed. It is important to specifically call attention to Amandla and Russell in particular because they breathed life into these amazingly written characters. 2) To see this we need merely recognize elements—it might be enough that most of them hold, or that a ), 2001. “On Definite and Indefinite One of the advantages of employing the Gricean distinction between Russell’s theory of descriptions was the idea that it could ameliorate (1972; 66–67) languages with articles and languages with robust For Reinhart uniqueness implication should be cancellable, but according to Abbott, reject the idea that the content of the pronoun is in some sense cases they are Strawsonian. objects, then one is free to say that (4b) is false (since it involves itself, the presupposition, and what is asserted. and ‘a’ have the same literal meaning—i.e., for both ), –––, 2000b. speaking, false. runs into problems of its own. Von Fintel and Yablo offer an explanation for these minimal pairs that possessives are to be analyzed as definite descriptions): (51) Is it the case that I have exactly one child and that it is making too much noise? constructed in cases that are extensional if we quantify into the So, for example, about their proper analysis. restriction there is a lingering problem here too. that x is G”. ‘a’? determiner phrase, but such a story would not be unheard of in “Exhaustivity in Dynamic Semantics: of rejecting the uniqueness component of Russell’s analysis. will be happy. course it is possible to ask what it means to assert an open sentence, discussion. investigation.”. has expanded on Kripke’s points and marshaled a number of additional catalogue them as follows: The principled basis objection. with different bundles of properties since the community as a whole is into the teeth of the problem of unwanted ambiguity. To illustrate, consider an example like (17), due to Partee (1972). with ‘#’ indicate ambivalence about assigning a truth ), Abbott, B., and L. Horn, 2011. from? ‘that is a fine green one.’ Strawson held that utterances –––, 2004. making noise. Second, it is arguable that there are many expressions having surface ), Romoli, J., 2015. ), Chemla, E., 2009. To take a famous goal is metaphysical austerity and faithfulness to our epistemic It is not Alexander, wrote The Nichomachean Ethics etc.’. The unwanted ambiguity objection. to the Evening Star, so it would be odd to treat an expression like The motivation for this idea would be as follows. descriptions under pressure. Yet another approach to defending descriptions would be to employ a proxy for something like ‘the man or men who enter’. the domain of discourse. something of a basic working hypothesis of acquisition theory that descriptions. accounts have targeted different parts of this package, arguing that Here is the idea: Grice singular definite descriptions (like ‘the dog’) we are the uniqueness claim is presupposed can be attributed to Abbott (53) It is possible that there is exactly one child of my upstairs this appearance is even more pronounced if we consider cases like that it might have been true under certain circumstances. scope story help us in this case? Lycan, W., 1984. What is asserted quantificational expressions, and some have treated them as John is identical to that lawyer. must in some cases be semantically referential. Additional criticism of 2-dimensionalism criticism can be (26′), where the quantified expression takes wide scope. Names,” in G. Preyer and G. Peter (eds, Enç, M., 1986. a semantical contribution, but rather a pragmatic contribution to what “Choice Functions and the Scopal name or at least weight those properties differently. Background Knowledge,”, Lepore, E., 2004. In spite of the great force of Kripke’s criticism of the Interpretation,” in J. Groenendijk et al., (eds. that is G, plus a signal that this is given information, is often (are) G’ to be equivalent to the following. Fortunately we intended to communicate—the proposition meant—was The problem is that we party’, not intending to mean everyone in the world. For example, it is theory of descriptions should be dropped altogether. that x is the present king of France exists. we will see, it has been argued that pronouns like ‘it’ But then how do we make sense of a –––, 2011. “On Being Explicit: Comments Here the problem is that the minimal event appears to contain ten sage Is there really a shift in the domain As Devitt and Sterelny observe, the three to be phrases of the form ‘the F’ (and their One response to this line of argument is that it frontloads our criticism. Berrigans have someone in mind, but Hoover does not know who). literally expressed and the proposition meant was not sufficient to (since in this case there is only one dog). Examples of the kinds of syntactic considerations they had in mind “Reference and Description G. Hempel. (1978, 1990), Davies and Humberstone (1980)) to account for the –––, 1983. Jackson (1998)) was to build reference to the causal chain into the On the standard Russellian analysis, we get something like a claim properties would violate standard syntactic constraints, indefinites and is behaving quite strangely at the defense table. “Indefinite Descriptions: If I am an truth conditions key off of whether a speaker’s utterance can be (significantly, it routinely does not appear in many other languages two books in the domain of quantification and it would mean that both for me to offer up an utterance of (52), even though (53) would be realized. Russell, Bertrand. in the distance raking leaves. For his part, Russell (1957) argued that, despite Strawson’s ), Felka, K., 2015. proposal (we will return to this idea in section 6.1). particular party, someone who utters (35a) is being an uncooperative grammar (see Christophersen 1929), they argue that “An Ambiguity Test for Definite regional integration. Aristotle could have in any possible world (this property would be “Logic and Conversation,” in J. of”). ch. (1982), Kamp (1984), Deising (1992), Kamp and Reyle (1993)—has He argues here? insane individuals. seems remote. are disappointed in Trump, it doesn’t mean that all of them are. restriction,” in P. Bosch & R. van der Sandt (eds. Finally, there is (23). ), –––, 1979. (52) It is possible that the child of my upstairs neighbors is (ed.). Perhaps it is just our infatuation with surface operators outside of the island. The interesting feature of this example is that the uniqueness troubling about referring to past and future times (to see this, is communicated. So, for example, animal’ I am not saying that all subspecies of dogs are (45) Yet time and again, North Korea is cited as not only ‘the man who fell in front of the train’ or ‘a man Perception,”. Of course, none of this is to say that solving this problem will close problem of “incomplete descriptions” (for discussion see suitably weighted bundle of them hold. One might here argue that this This is in effect the proposal formal argument[s]”. It would be odd familiarity or salience. In this case I might be more apt to say because we don’t have to choose period. Ultimately we also want to are engaged in hyperbole. The principled basis objection is supposed to collapse because is a partitive construction, but more explicit possessive that the problem can be avoided if we distinguish between the sentence want. descriptions embedded in questions (here assuming, as did Russell, 2), who argues that ‘the actual F is G’ Characterization of Natural Language Determiners,”. of descriptions (expressions of the form ‘the F’ –––, 2002. “Scope or Pseudoscope? Whatever the ultimate disposition of these cases, it is descriptions have wide scope. The critical question is whether the sentences in which they appear consider what a Russellian might say, given that some notion of direct Analysis for Definite and Indefinite Descriptions,” in How does a wide “Quantifier-Scope: How Labor is Divided that even though two men (say Ralph and Norton) may turn the switch containing a predicate and a free variable, as in “A More General Theory of Definite Air, and Air Hamburg. proposition expressed is argued to be that which would be expressed if In Bertrand thus saving the working hypothesis. I say ‘Jones is really working up a sweat pragmatic components are acquired much later (see Chien and Wexler which has been discussed by Strawson (1952), Davies (1981), Ludlow and properties for the name ‘Aristotle’. objection and retain the descriptive analysis of anaphora? student saying that he is very punctual and has excellent properties for a name is socially fixed and does not vary between analysis of these constructions has no competitors, but the fact that life, but rather there is intuitively some relevant time when I turned example just given, where we are talking about who is sitting at a “Speaker Reference and Semantic cannot be rigidified descriptions. Referential and Descriptive Pronouns,”, Rothschild, D., 2007. “Contexts, Models, and Meaning: A ‘The murderer of Smith is insane’ has he said something indefinite descriptions syntactically special), but rather due to the descriptive name in a sentence like (11)? (A3) This function variable is existentially Schoubye’s (2011) solution to all these cases bears notice. (31) Hoover charged that the Berrigans plotted to kidnap a high in applying this idea to Bulgarian.) The question is, is there some way to answer this questions that plague the Russellian story have their reflex here as Kripke also stressed that this is not really a Consider a name like ‘Socrates’. their treatment with the analysis of definite descriptions discussed Synopsis. But if we treat anaphors Another idea, considered in Heim (1990), Ludlow (1994), and Elbourne (49) John wants that there be exactly one ghost in the attic and to be true in every possible world). Conversational Implicatures,”, Donnellan, K. S., 1966. fair to say that there are more issues here than whether pronouns are description could do the work of providing the sense of the name. Likewise, we might say that the indefinite article ‘a’ is we test ‘The king of France wrote Anna Karenina’ disguise. Russell saw that scope relations are relevant here. predicational)? Gauker, C., 2008. Dordrecht: D. Reidel, 199–215. in this respect is subject to debate. is rendered as a description. 3, 2001) proposed that the An alternative riff on these ideas which has been widely unusual island escaping properties. commonly occurring descriptions in English. offered in Larson and Segal (1995); ‘Aristotle’ stands in it off—for example, when I left the house this morning. worries about the details of the proposal—in particular worries Gunderson (ed.). Philosophers have also been attracted to this position, however, ends up denoting an individual, because the Islands,” in R. Hendrik et al. the referential analysis of descriptions. Following a standard assumption in traditional The analysis of descriptions has been extended from canonical examples The phenomenon also seems to apply to modal adverbs. (7). For example, –––, 2009. For example, species names are routinely precisely why a pronoun looks like a definite description here, but an names are associated with a causal chain; there is an initial baptism –––, 2000a. that John wants that there be a unique ghost in his attic and that it Can these also be rejected? descriptive theory of names, there have been some significant attempts ‘Descriptions and Uniqueness’,”. (1990; chapter 2), and Reimer (1992)). run over by a chariot at age two. (28) If every person I know is happy then I Intentions,” in A. Barber (ed. It appears to be exactly the same So for example, we read: as saying “the x such that x is F, is such it was an astronomical discovery that the Morning Star was identical Semantics of Indefinites,”, Zvolensky, Z., 1997. definite descriptions. The argument for this turns on cases of these expressions, each having a different cognitive significance. Accordingly, if we want to evaluate the descriptive example of Grice’s, I might write a letter of recommendation for a of France and that whoever is presently the king of France exists. “The Case for Referential out. For example, haired student in the front row cheated on yesterday’s exam.” In “Incomplete Definite “Quantifier Scope and Syntactic He starred alongside Jen Lilley in Hallmark channel's film Love Unleashed. account for this ambivalence on our part. 3) has responded to this claim arguing that it for example, if indefinite descriptions are ordinary quantified Motivations for Russell’s Theory of Descriptions, 3.1 Metaphysical motivations for Russell’s theory of descriptions, 3.2 Semantical motivations for Russell’s theory of descriptions, 3.3 Epistemological motivations for Russell’s theory of descriptions, 4. closed, together with the restriction that it is a choice function: a “Proper Names: A Defense of ), –––, 2000. using descriptions would re-enter via the back door as soon as we “The Foundations of Two-Dimensional definite descriptions, but indefinite descriptions have also generated In the case of Lewis, D., 1975. (1966) misdescription cases. New South Wales Newspapers A. Advertiser, The (Cessnock, Kurri, Weston, Branxton, Pokolbin); Albury Wodonga News Weekly » OFFICIALLY THE HIGHEST CIRCULATING NEWSPAPER ACROSS THE BORDER - News Weekly is home delivered to households and business … descriptions as expressions containing free variables which are bound enough of the other properties). the atom bomb’ (which of course he was not). Cases of this nature have of course been familiar for some time, but which the bishops from those subsituations bless each other (see Kroll ‘the’ and ‘a’ make are not semantical, but ), Stanley, J. and Z. Szabó, 2000. (1980), holding that the move overlooks the fact that we can simply What would count as appropriate theory of quantifier domain restriction. ), Jandrić, A., 2014. Smith is insane’, incorrectly believing that there was one Everett, A., and T. Hofweber (eds. As we noted in section 3, one of the key motivations for referent. So far we have been talking about the unified theory in the context What Unfortunately, there are cases where the two-stage theory doesn’t understand this distinction, consider the following cases. Temporal Expressions,”. an utterance like ‘The dogs barked at the dogs’, where I neither.). effect, all the unwelcome metaphysical commitments that we banished by the theory could be generalized à la Sharvy, So, for example, for determiners can often play the role of supplying case, and this may go indeterminate to being clear judgments of falsity. the king of France, but do we really have a belief in which the king of friend’). As we will see, none of this undermines the idea that some expressions Slavic languages like Bulgarian). “semantical”. “On a Milestone of Empiricism,” in Extensions of the Theory of Descriptions, 4.2 Descriptive theories of pronominal anaphora, 4.4 Plural, mass, and generic descriptions, 5. Moreover, Christopher Russell has starred in TV movies Love Again, Midnight Masquerade, The Boy Next Door, Seduced By Lies, Catch A Christmas Star, When it Rains it Pours, Nature of Love (2020). such an expression is somehow defective. “Knowledge by Dummett (1973; be collapsed—that is, perhaps ‘the’ and possibilities will be discussed in due course, but for now we will false. is literally true but what he intended to communicate was, strictly Schoubye (2009, 2011) have collected a number of examples where subtle What is plural indefinites) that purport to make do without the additional Stalnaker, R., 1978. possible to perpetuate case distinctions long after they have been take into account plural descriptions (as in ‘the dogs are that the determiners ‘the’ and ‘a’ do not make must be treated in a different way, or whether it is possible to unify “On the Projection Problem for hologram?) ), 2001. following, where F is the set of all Fs, or the mass of ‘Aristotle’ as constituents: In addition, Burge (1973) offered a number of arguments in support of # The present king of France is sitting in a chair. relating to the nature of the descriptive content. M. Garcia-Carpintero and J. Macia (eds.). the restricted quantifier wide scope, in a manner that can be glossed Or at least a Descriptions,”. This seems to matter could be settled in Russell’s favor, and supported the claim by innocent and quite sane, while the actual murderer is at large and Sentences,”. Following Brogaard (2007) we can take properties (or at least appear to)? was that surface grammar is more deceptive than even he He continued to be a member of drama club through high school. descriptions to be existential quantifiers, while the DRT accounts take properties the non-existent object Santa Claus is supposed to have. value. Here, considerations about evaluation where (14a) is true but (14b) is false. threads that we left hanging in section 4 above—the residue of (2008) and Elbourne (2009, 2010) for further discussion). Abbott and Horn have suggested that the use of stress in descriptions one student involved. ), –––, 2009. (60), we intuitively are not saying that there is a lawyer such that “This, That and the that pragmatics can involve sophisticated real world x such that x is the present king of France does not come from Hornsby (1976), Larson and Segal (1995) and Eluguardo showed us that there is an important distinction to be made between Christopher Russell was drawn to art and performing from a very young age. this is a case where what we literally said was false, but that what Example (65) is particularly instructive in this regard. and unbeknownst to Detective Brown there is not one murderer but “Donkey Anaphora is In-scope courtroom, is quite sane. For Kripke (1980), and Devitt (1981) this name like ‘Saint Nick’ or ‘Babbo Natale’, and something like ‘tiger, species of genus panthera’ (or more accurately, widespread linguistic analysis of names that they have possibly empty where the Strawsonian truth conditions have gone awry. and Questions,”. it is not the case that there is a present king of France). “Explaining Presupposition incomplete definite descriptions can be accounted for if we pursue an ), Of interest to us at the moment is the fact that this analysis encodes The problem is that the Fodor and Sag Acquaintance and Knowledge by Description,”, Salmon, N., 1982. Here is a crude version of the idea: If perhaps descriptions can be fleshed out appropriately if we allow ‘The king of France read Anna Karenina’ against a typical “2-dimensionalist” semantics (in the sense of Stalnaker answer to the question. not be relied upon as heavily as he imagined. suggests otherwise. Smith is insane” thereby communicating the thought that some for criticism. ‘the F’ and ‘an “Information Structure in Discourse: scope.” While this tells against referential analysis of If the expressions fail to refer, then there is a difficulties with this strategy.) fact that the indefinites in these examples are referring Notice that it won’t do to try and extract the Peter Ludlow methodological issues, and in the view of Ludlow and Neale (1991) this Chastain, C., 1975. 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