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The But Not All: A Partitive Account of Plural Definite Descriptions

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dc.contributor.authorBrogaard, Berit
dc.date.accessioned2015-12-07T22:41:15Z
dc.date.issued2007
dc.date.updated2015-12-07T10:59:00Z
dc.description.abstractA number of authors in favor of a unitary account of singular descriptions have alleged that the unitary account can be extrapolated to account for plural definite descriptions. In this paper I take a closer look at this suggestion. I argue that while the unitary account is clearly onto something right, it is in the end empirically inadequate. At the end of the paper I offer a new partitive account of plural definite descriptions that avoids the problems with both the unitary account and standard Russellian analyses.
dc.identifier.issn0268-1064
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/24233
dc.publisherBlackwell Publishing Ltd
dc.sourceMind and Language
dc.titleThe But Not All: A Partitive Account of Plural Definite Descriptions
dc.typeJournal article
local.bibliographicCitation.issue4
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage426
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage402
local.contributor.affiliationBrogaard, Berit, College of Arts and Social Sciences, ANU
local.contributor.authoruidBrogaard, Berit, u4466227
local.description.embargo2037-12-31
local.description.notesImported from ARIES
local.identifier.absfor220313 - Philosophy of Language
local.identifier.ariespublicationu4193773xPUB31
local.identifier.citationvolume22
local.identifier.doi10.1111/j.1468-0017.2007.00314.x
local.identifier.scopusID2-s2.0-34547882747
local.type.statusPublished Version

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