definite description
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denoting phrase in the form of "the X" where X is a noun-phrase or a singular common noun. The definite description is proper if X applies to a unique individual or object
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Gottlob Frege
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philosophy of language
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proposition
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John Searle
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principle of excluded middle
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linguistic modality
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Wilfrid Sellars
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counterfactual conditional
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formal semantics
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France
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language
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Aristotle
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Confucius
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Plato
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linguistics
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Bill Clinton
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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
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Yuri Gagarin
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Noam Chomsky
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Bertrand Russell
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