Abstract

JARAMILLO U, Juan Manuel. Strawson's and Searle's descriptive theories of reference: Two criticisms to the theories of nonsense. discus.filos [online]. 2013, vol.14, n.23, pp.155-177. ISSN 0124-6127.

In the first part of this paper I examine the Strawson's objections to Russells' 'theory of descriptions' from the context of a pragmatic semantics emphasizing the importance of the Fregean distinction between logical implication and presupposition. Furthermore, I examine Donella's, Grice's and Devitt's criticisms to the use merely attributive (non-referential) of descriptions by Russell and Strawson. In the second part, I present Searle's theory on the problem of meaning/reference of proper names and the systematic (axiomatic) approach in the context of a theory of speech acts.

Keywords : Definite descriptions; Devitt; Donnellan; proper names; reference; meaning; Searle; Strawson.

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