An ``i for an i: singular terms, uniqueness, and reference

DOI10.1017/S1755020311000347MaRDI QIDQ2919944zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors Stewart Shapiro

Publication date 23 October 2012

Published in The Review of Symbolic Logic (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

definite descriptionsnatural deductionphilosophy of languagesingular termsdonkey anaphoramathematical languagessingular pronouns

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Philosophical and critical aspects of logic and foundations (03A05) Philosophy of mathematics (00A30)

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