Abstract:
There is an impressive level of agreement among analytic philosophers of language about the central core of Russell’s theory of definite descriptions.1 There are, of course, issues that continue to excite lively debate, and the view that definite descriptions are genuine singular terms continues to draw significant support. Still, it is widely accepted that definite descriptions on at least their attributive use are expressions whose logico-semantic role is best understood in terms of quantifiers. ....
