Abstract

This essay notes a striking parallel between the original Hilbert-Bernays treatment of definite descriptions and Russell's theory of logically proper names. The formal language for the original theory is laid out and the implications of a theory of vis a vis the statements that qualify as predications in a logically proper definite descriptions sense of the word 'predication' different from the espoused by Frege, Russell and Meinong.

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