Download or read book Definite Descriptions written by Paul Elbourne and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2013-06-27 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul Elbourne defends the Fregean view that definite descriptions ('the table', 'the King of France') refer to individuals, and offers a new and radical account of the semantics of pronouns. He draws on a wide range of work, from Frege, Peano, and Russell to the latest findings in linguistics, philosophy of language, and psycholinguistics.