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The ambiguity thesis versus Kripke's defence of Russell
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posted on 2023-06-08, 05:57 authored by Murali RamachandranIn his influential paper 'Speaker's Reference and Semantic Reference', Kripke defends Russell's theory of descriptions against the charge that the existence of referential and attributive uses of descriptions reflects a semantic ambiguity. He presents a purely defensive argument to show that Russell's theory is not refuted by the referential usage and a number of methodological considerations which apparently tell in favour of Russell's unitary theory over an ambiguity theory. In this paper, I put forward a case for the ambiguity theory that thwarts Kripke's defensive strategy and argue that it is not undermined by any of his methodological points.
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Mind and LanguageISSN
0268-1064Publisher
WileyIssue
4Volume
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371 - 387Pages
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0268-1064Department affiliated with
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2012-02-06Usage metrics
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