Homework for Philosophy 270, Fall 2005

Homework on §8.4—assigned Mon 12/5 and due Wed 12/7

Analyze the following using each of the two approaches to definite descriptions and by treating the relative clause as restrictive and as non-restrictive (so you should provide 4 analyses):

The book which was long was good

That is, use both Russell's analysis and the description operator to analyze each of:

The book that was long was good
The book, which was long, was good

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