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Ideas for Metrodorus (Lamp), Bernard Linsky and Jonathan Dancy

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5. Theory of Logic / F. Referring in Logic / 2. Descriptions / b. Definite descriptions

18774	Definite descriptions, unlike proper names, have a logical structure [Linsky,B]
	Full Idea: Definite descriptions seem to have a logical structure in a way that proper names do not.
	From: Bernard Linsky (Quantification and Descriptions [2014], 1.1.1)
	A reaction: Thus descriptions have implications which plain names do not.

5. Theory of Logic / F. Referring in Logic / 2. Descriptions / c. Theory of definite descriptions

21727	Definite descriptions theory eliminates the King of France, but not the Queen of England [Linsky,B]
	Full Idea: The theory of definite descriptions may eliminate apparent commitment to such entities as the present King of France, but certainly not to the present Queen of England.
	From: Bernard Linsky (Russell's Metaphysical Logic [1999], 7.3)