In defense of proper names against descriptions

Philosophical Studies 4 (5):72 - 78 (1953)
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The semantics of singular terms.Gordon Matheson - 1962 - Journal of Symbolic Logic 27 (4):439-466.

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Methods of logic.Willard Van Orman Quine - 1962 - Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
Mathematical logic.Willard Van Orman Quine - 1951 - Cambridge,: Harvard University Press.
Methods of Logic.P. L. Heath & Willard Van Orman Quine - 1955 - Philosophical Quarterly 5 (21):376.
A theory of proper names.Arthur W. Burks - 1951 - Philosophical Studies 2 (3):36 - 45.

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