description

• a statement that represents something in words
• the act of describing something
• sort or variety; “every description of book was there”

Theory of descriptions,

An analyses, initially developed by Rusell, of sentences containing descriptions. Descriptions include indefinite descriptions such as “an elephant” and definite descriptions such as “the positive square root of four”. On Russel’s analyses, descriptions are “incomplete symbols” that are meaningful only in the context of other symbols, i.e., only in the sentences containing them. Although the words “the first president of the United States” appear to constitute a singular term that picks out a particular individual, much as the name “George Washington” does, Rusell held that descriptions are not referring expressions, and that they are “analyzed out” in a proper specification of the logical form of the sentences in which they occur. The grammatical form of “the first president of the United States is tall” is simply misleading as to its logical form.

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