Part one of term paper
Keith Donnellan, a man most well known amongst most philosophers for his work on reference and definite descriptions, illustrates on attribution and referential idiolects. He begins by explaining that there are two uses of definite descriptions, but first we must establish what the use of a definite description is according to Donnellan. A ...

Part two of term paper
... x’ is identical with C’ is true.”1 In contrast, the entity x is the denotation of C, thus enabling the speaker to use an expression that denotes some forms of the entity. Second, the speaker uses “the definite description to refer to something, and call this use the referential use of a definite description.”2 Donnellan asserts that there are two uses of definite descriptions that he will call the attributive use and the referential use. A speaker exercising the attributive use of defin ...