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To: adiaireton8

“What do you think is the difference between a title and a proper name?”

The descriptive theory of proper names is the view that the meaning of a given use of a proper name is a set of properties that can be expressed as a description that picks out an object that satisfies the description.


542 posted on 07/24/2007 12:25:17 PM PDT by blue-duncan
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To: blue-duncan
And that differs from a title .... how?

-A8

543 posted on 07/24/2007 12:27:12 PM PDT by adiaireton8 ("There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse." - Plato, Phaedo 89d)
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