Wednesday, June 1, 2016

Reflections [Raphael Nunziata]

Definite description! What made this topic interesting  was the question of nonexistent references or descriptions that tie to something or nothing. Where the only types of description that will have existence, if there isn't a reference, is the referential form...versus the attributive.   Furthermore, reading through the works of Bertrand, Strawson, Frege and many others illustrated a dialectic process of change, which gave me a huge part of understanding. Although, other works like Kripke discuss the meaning of names and definite description I find the categorization of definite descriptions to be more intriguing and simpler to understand. Nevertheless, other units of the course all had some spark to them.

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