Also see these posts on Marxmail from ten years ago: http://www.marxmail.org/archives/may98/journal_am.htm
Jim F. On Sat, 5 Apr 2008 20:18:32 +0100 "rasherrs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Interesting intro Charles. Much appreciated > > Paddy > -------------------------------------------- > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Charles Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <marxism-thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu> > Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2008 7:39 PM > Subject: Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Symbolic Logic > > > Theory of descriptions > > Jump to: navigation, search > The theory of descriptions is one of the philosopher Bertrand > Russell's most > significant contributions to the philosophy of language. It is also > termed > Russell's Theory of Descriptions (often abbreviated as RTD). In > short, > Russell argued that the superficial syntactic form of descriptions > (phrases > usually of the form "The X" and "An X") is misleading, as it does > not match > their logical or semantic structure. While descriptions may seem > fairly > insignificant phrases, Russell and others have argued that providing > a > satisfactory analysis of their linguistic and logical properties is > vital to > clarity in important philosophical debates, particularly in > semantics, > > > _______________________________________________ > Marxism-Thaxis mailing list > Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu > To change your options or unsubscribe go to: > http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis > > _______________________________________________ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis
