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Donnellan On Attribution And Reference Idiolects
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Keith Donnellan, a man most well known amongst most philosophers for his work on reference and definite descriptions, illustrates on attribution and referential idiolects. He begins by explaining that there are two uses of definite descriptions, but first we must establish what the use of a defin ....
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...., another description or a name, would do as well.”
In illustrating this distinction, Donnellan considers a single sentence for his example, “Smiths murderer is insane”. In this, there are two points to illustrate; the first pointing out the description, which is referential, and the second is truth of its state of affairs, that is attributive. To begin analyzing this sentence, the first thing we must do is assert that there is a murderer. “In sane”, asserts that there is another person who f.... |
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