Russell's Logical Puzzles Quiz

Russell's four vexing logical puzzles include the Problem of Apparent Reference to Nonexistents.

According to Russell, definite descriptions are genuinely singular terms.

Frege's Puzzle about Identity is one of Russell's four vexing logical puzzles.

Russell initially posed the four puzzles in terms of proper names rather than definite descriptions.

Russell ignores context-bound descriptions when introducing the Name Claim.

Frege posited abstract entities that he called 'referents.'

Frege distinguished between the reference and sense of a name within specific contexts.

Strawson criticized Russell's theory for ignoring the standard conversational uses of sentences by real people.

Keith Donnellan introduced the concept of referential use vs. attributive use of definite descriptions.

Geach proposed that anaphoric expressions are abbreviations of their antecedents.

Searle argued that proper names are equivalent to descriptions.

Kripke introduced the notion of 'possible worlds' to argue against description theories of proper names.

Kripke and Putnam extended the Causal–Historical Theory to cover natural-kind terms.

Kripke argues that proper names normally function as rigid designators, denoting the same individual in every possible world in which that individual exists.

Ruth Marcus contributed to the Direct Reference theory of names.

Locke proposed ideational theories about the meaning of linguistic expressions.