Referential Descriptions and Conversational Implicatures

The standard Gricean defense of Russell in the face of referential uses of descriptions has been to claim that these uses are conversational implicatures. My argument in “The Case for Referential Descriptions” focused on showing that these uses are not particularized implicatures. I now adapt and de...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Michael Devitt
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Rijeka. Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences 2007-01-01
Series:European Journal of Analytic Philosophy
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Online Access:https://hrcak.srce.hr/file/137197