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Full Idea
A 'contextual' definition shows how to eliminate a description from a context.
Gist of Idea
Contextual definitions eliminate descriptions from contexts
Source
Bernard Linsky (Quantification and Descriptions [2014], 2)
Book Ref
'Bloomsbury Companion to Philosophical Logic', ed/tr. Horsten,L/Pettigrew,R [Bloomsbury 2014], p.85
A Reaction
I'm trying to think of an example, but what I come up with are better described as 'paraphrases' than as 'definitions'.
18774 | Definite descriptions, unlike proper names, have a logical structure [Linsky,B] |
18776 | Contextual definitions eliminate descriptions from contexts [Linsky,B] |