Descriptions, i.e., phrases such as "a/the man", "a/the table", "the present Queen of England” etc. are one of the most important issues in contemporary analytical philosophy of language. Two main approaches to descriptions include the quantificational and the referential account. The first one claims that descriptions belong to the group of quantificational expressions, that is, the expressions such as "every table", "most men", "some monarchs”. The second one says that descriptions - at least in some uses - have a referring function. My dissertation provides a critical and in-depth analysis of the two aforementioned approaches in the semantics of descriptions. I have focused on the question how various theories which represent these appr...
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The aim of the paper is to compare the role played by logical analysis in Wittgenstein’s Tractatus ...
The term “concept” is derived from the philosophical sciences. The origins of the term might be foun...
The authors – participants of the seminar devoted to the “Comparative syntax of predicative express...
Celem niniejszej pracy jest refleksja nad postacią Hamleta, tytułowego bohatera tragedii Williama Sz...
In this work, the author presents a firm conviction that proper names are specific cultural signs i...
The principal aim of the analyses presented in the work in question is to show the development of t...
It is said that transcendental phenomenology faces an unavoidable aporia, according to whi...
Sociology of knowledge does not enjoy, as a matter of fact, any good opinion. Sociologists are disc...
The meager second-hand reports on the life of Zeno of Elea and his book with the famous paradoxes i...
The article presents the results of the analyses of the material collected by means of questionnaire...
The aim o f this article is to look from an existential point of view at the metaphysical argument f...
The article presents a naturalized conceptual relativism of W.V.O. Quine in the perspective of the l...
In my article I reconstruct the Lacanian notion of the Symbolical and explain why language constitut...
In the article, the author presents the achievements of Fr. Stanisław Ziemiański, S.J., in metaphysi...
Anxiety is a notion used in various contexts. The colloquial language uses it, side by side with fr...
The aim of the paper is to compare the role played by logical analysis in Wittgenstein’s Tractatus ...
The term “concept” is derived from the philosophical sciences. The origins of the term might be foun...
The authors – participants of the seminar devoted to the “Comparative syntax of predicative express...