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Publication details [#8748]

Sellars, Wilfrid. 1954. Presupposing. The Philosophical Review 63 : 197–215.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

definite description | presupposition

Person as a subject

Strawson, P.F.

Annotation

S. examines Strawson's account of definite descriptions. He concludes that his critique of earlier accounts is more successful than his own analysis and that both the success of the critique and the weakness of the alternative follow from the cluster ofideas embodied in his notion of presupposition.

Reviewed by

Strawson, Peter F. 1954. Reply to Mr. Sellars.

Reprints

Petöfi, Janos S. and Dorothea Franck. 1973. In Petöfi, Janos S. and Dorothea Franck, eds. Präsuppositionen in Philosophie und Linguistik. Athenäum Verlag. pp. 173–191.