Singular term, the Glossary
A singular term is a paradigmatic referring device in a language.[1]
Table of Contents
14 relations: Arthur Prior, Definite description, Demonstrative, Gottlob Frege, John Stuart Mill, P. F. Strawson, Personal pronoun, Peter of Spain, Philosophy of language, Proper noun, Reference, Sum of Logic, William Lycan, William of Ockham.
Arthur Prior
Arthur Norman Prior (4 December 1914 – 6 October 1969), usually cited as A. N.
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Definite description
In formal semantics and philosophy of language, a definite description is a denoting phrase in the form of "the X" where X is a noun-phrase or a singular common noun. Singular term and definite description are philosophy of language and semantics.
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Demonstrative
Demonstratives (abbreviated) are words, such as this and that, used to indicate which entities are being referred to and to distinguish those entities from others.
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Gottlob Frege
Friedrich Ludwig Gottlob Frege (8 November 1848 – 26 July 1925) was a German philosopher, logician, and mathematician.
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John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill (20 May 1806 – 7 May 1873) was an English philosopher, political economist, politician and civil servant.
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P. F. Strawson
Sir Peter Frederick Strawson (23 November 1919 – 13 February 2006) was an English philosopher who spent most of his career at the University of Oxford.
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Personal pronoun
Personal pronouns are pronouns that are associated primarily with a particular grammatical person – first person (as I), second person (as you), or third person (as he, she, it, they).
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Peter of Spain
Peter of Hispania (Petrus Hispanus; Portuguese and Pedro Hispano; century) was the author of the Tractatus, later known as the Summulae Logicales, an important medieval university textbook on Aristotelian logic.
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Philosophy of language
In analytic philosophy, philosophy of language investigates the nature of language and the relations between language, language users, and the world.
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Proper noun
A proper noun is a noun that identifies a single entity and is used to refer to that entity (Africa; Jupiter; Sarah; Walmart) as distinguished from a common noun, which is a noun that refers to a class of entities (continent, planet, person, corporation) and may be used when referring to instances of a specific class (a continent, another planet, these persons, our corporation).
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Reference
A reference is a relationship between objects in which one object designates, or acts as a means by which to connect to or link to, another object. Singular term and reference are Concepts in logic and semantics.
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Sum of Logic
The Summa Logicae ("Sum of Logic") is a textbook on logic by William of Ockham.
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William Lycan
William G. Lycan (born September 26, 1945) is an American philosopher and professor emeritus at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was formerly the William Rand Kenan, Jr.
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William of Ockham
William of Ockham or Occam (Gulielmus Occamus; 1287 – 10 April 1347) was an English Franciscan friar, scholastic philosopher, apologist, and Catholic theologian, who is believed to have been born in Ockham, a small village in Surrey.
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