Ideas from 'Quantification and Descriptions' by Bernard Linsky [2014], by Theme Structure
[found in 'Bloomsbury Companion to Philosophical Logic' (ed/tr Horsten,L/Pettigrew,R) [Bloomsbury 2014,978-1-4725-2303-0]].
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2. Reason / D. Definition / 7. Contextual Definition
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Contextual definitions eliminate descriptions from contexts
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Full Idea:
A 'contextual' definition shows how to eliminate a description from a context.
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From:
Bernard Linsky (Quantification and Descriptions [2014], 2)
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A reaction:
I'm trying to think of an example, but what I come up with are better described as 'paraphrases' than as 'definitions'.
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5. Theory of Logic / F. Referring in Logic / 2. Descriptions / b. Definite descriptions
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Definite descriptions, unlike proper names, have a logical structure
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Full Idea:
Definite descriptions seem to have a logical structure in a way that proper names do not.
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From:
Bernard Linsky (Quantification and Descriptions [2014], 1.1.1)
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A reaction:
Thus descriptions have implications which plain names do not.
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