- H. P. Grice, From “Vacuous Names,” A Reprint of Pp. 161–171. The central question raised by Strawson in Part I of Individuals concerns the ways in which reference to individuals and particulars is obtained in the practices of ordinary language. Summary. 173–193. Anything whatsoever can be identifyingly referred to, can appear as a logical subject, can appear as an individual.

Lexical Choice and Conceptual Perspective in the Generation of Plural Referring Expressions. That judgement is probably correct.

Albert Gatt & Kees van Deemter - 2007 - Journal of Logic, Language and Information 16 (4):423-443. It is false, Strawson believed, to think, as Russell, that the phrase will have meaning only insofar as there is only one table and no more.

"If we sufficiently, that is radically, modify the view of the optimist [determinist], his view is the right one.

Bertrand Russell - 1957 - Mind 66 (263):385-389. Access to the full content is only available to members of institutions that have purchased access. Mr. Strawson on Referring. Abstract. OpenURL .

. I would like to establish a sense of the shape of the paper, to track the way in which Strawson develops his argument. 138–144 of XL 479,. I am going to give a detailed reading of Strawson's paper, solving problems where we can and noting down those that deserve further consideration. At the end of the article, Strawson concludes with a further distillation of the two viewpoints as they relate to his own personal thesis. In normal use, the expression would be referring to one particular table. Charles E. Caton - 1959 - Mind 68 (272):539-544.

- Karel Lambert, A Theory of Definite Descriptions, A Revised Reprint of XXXII 252 with Altered Title, Pp. Summary; Citations; Active Bibliography; Co-citation; Clustered Documents; Version History; BibTeX @ARTICLE{Russell57strawsonon, author = {Reviewed Russell and D. Kosits and Assistant Professor Of Psychology}, title = {Strawson on referring}, journal = {In: Mind}, year = {1957}, pages = {385--389}} Share. Looking back at the course of his career in philosophy, Strawson believed in 1998 that the work by which he continues to be best known remains his first, the article “On Referring”.

Strawson's Restricted Theory of Referring. Strawson, On Referring, A Reprint of XVIII 87, Pp. Strawson on Referring.

Strawson's position that attitudes are existent real facts is sometimes described as "attitudinism." - Keith Donnellan, Reference and Definite Descriptions, A Reprint of XL 276, Pp. So when I refer to, for example, III:2, I mean the second paragraph of section III. 135–160. Strawson also argued that we often need to know the use of a word to understand its meaning, such as in statements of the form, "The table is covered with books." It is certainly true that “On Referring” is the root of the whole wide spectrum of developments in his later writings. He then goes on to describe the viewpoints and disagreements of the “optimists and pessimists” of determinism, to which I will refer, more directly, as compatible determinists and incompatible libertarians.