LOGICAL AND ONTOLOGICAL PROBLEMS OF “EMPTY” TERMS REFERENCE’S: VERSION BY B. RUSSELL
The article is devoted to the study problems related with the presence of “empty” terms in the language. One of the first examples of understanding the speech of not-being is considered; logical and ontological problems of “empty” terms reference’s are conceptualized in analytic philosophy. The author offers a critical examination of the interpretation of “empty” singular terms, represented in the works by B. Russell, and evaluate the solution of the problem of “empty” singular terms in the context of his descriptive theory of references.
Keywords: analytic philosophy, reference, “empty” terms, descriptive theory of references, Bertrand Russell
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Issue: 9, 2013
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