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The types of reference and definite descriptions.

Тонкие химические технологии, 2008
The article deals with the study of the types of reference and definite descriptions. The use of definite and indefinite reference is considered. The term «definite descriptions» is interpreted.
L. A. Ivanova
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Definite Descriptions and Quantifier Scope: Some Mates Cases Reconsidered [PDF]

European Journal of Analytic Philosophy, 2007
This paper reexamines some examples, discussed by Mates and others, of sentences containing both definite descriptions and quantifiers. It has frequently been claimed that these sentences provide evidence for the view that definite descriptions ...
Michael Glanzberg
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Kaplan and Marti on Definite Descriptions: Non-Standard Cases of Referential Use [PDF]

Омский научный вестник: Серия "Общество. История. Современность"
Donnellan’s distinction between referential and attributive uses of definite descriptions has two explanations — the semantic and the pragmatic one. A version of semantic explanations was outlined by Kaplan and elaborated in detail by Marti.
E. V. Borisov
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“Definite Associative Deixis”: Between Referential and Attributive Readings

Discours
This paper investigates different readings of definite descriptions within “definite associative deixis”. The term itself was proposed in Dvořák (2023) to refer to Hawkins’ “larger situation uses based on general knowledge” (1978).
Jan Dvořák
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Variation in the Occurrence and Interpretation of Articles in Malagasy: A Comparison with Italian

Languages, 2022
In languages that have a definite article but no indefinite article, the definite article typically maps to definites, and the bare noun maps to indefinites.
Ileana Paul, Giuliana Giusti, Gianluca E. Lebani   +2 more
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Russell and Strawson on definite descriptions: The principle of charity and its role in the appraisal of a philosophical theory

Filosofia Unisinos, 2014
The principle of charity is an important norm which governs not only philosophical inquiry but also conversations (or talk exchanges). It requires that we adopt the more/most plausible or reasonable interpretation of other people’s views in such a way ...
John Ian Kagayutan Boongaling
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Referential Descriptions: A Note on Bach

European Journal of Analytic Philosophy, 2007
Bach fails to give a satisfactory pragmatic account of referential uses of definite descriptions because he does not explain how a description’s quantificational meaning plays a “key role” in those uses.
Michael Devitt
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Referential Descriptions and Conversational Implicatures

European Journal of Analytic Philosophy, 2007
The standard Gricean defense of Russell in the face of referential uses of descriptions has been to claim that these uses are conversational implicatures.
Michael Devitt
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Developmental changes in children’s processing of redundant modifiers in definite object descriptions

Frontiers in Psychology, 2016
This paper investigates developmental changes in children’s processing of redundant information in definite object descriptions. In two experiments, children of two age groups (six or seven, and nine or ten years old) were presented with pictures of ...
Ruud Koolen, Emiel Krahmer, Marc Swerts
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¿Descripciones definidas referenciales?

Princípios, 2011
This paper questions the claim that definite descriptions have a referential semantics. Two possible definitions of “referential meaning” are discussed, and it is argued that definite descriptions are not referential according to either one.
Pierre Baumann
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