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Cresswell I 179
Definite Article/theory of descriptions/Russell: requiring that a sentence e.g. "the φ is ψ" provided that "the φ" has a wide range, entails that there exists a unique φ.
>Scope, >Narrow scope, >Wide Scope.
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Russell I X
Russell/Gödel: (K.Gödel, Preface to Principia Mathematica) Russell avoids any axioms about the particular articles "the", "the", "that". - Frege, on the other hand, must make an axiom about it!
The advantage for Russell, however, remains only as long as he interprets definitions as mere typographical abbreviations, not as the introduction of names.
>Proxy, >Names, >Logical proper names, >Axioms,
Typographical abbreviation: >"blackening of the paper", >Formalism.

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