রাসেলের বর্ণনাতত্ত্ব: একটি আলোচনা
Volume-XI, Issue-I, October 2022
Volume-XI, Issue-I, October 2022 | ||
Published Online: 31.10.2022 | Page No: 1-8 | |||
রাসেলের বর্ণনাতত্ত্ব: একটি আলোচনা রাজিবুল ইসলাম, সহকারী অধ্যাপক, দুর্গাপুর মহিলা মহাবিদ্যালয়, দুর্গাপুর, পশ্চিমবঙ্গ, ভারত | |
Russell’s Theory of Descriptions: A Discussion Rajibul Islam, Assistant Professor, Durgapur Women’s College, Durgapur, West Bengal, India | |
According to Russell knowledge is of two types, knowledge by description and knowledge by acquaintance. When we use a common or a proper name, actually we use descriptions. These descriptions are of two types, definite description (the-so-and-so type) and indefinite description (a-so-and-so type). This paper is concerned with a critical analysis of definite description. When a definite description is not occurred in a statement it cannot designate any object. We cannot substitute any name in place of a definite description. Definite description cannot be regarded as proper name. Even all the expressions figuring as proper name are not proper name in logical sense. In fact, such type of expressions is concealed description. A statement with a definite description is complex statement and when it is dissected the definite description disappears. It is actually a predicative expression. But, Frege says that definite description is like a proper name because a definite description has always a sense as well as reference as a proper name has. A definite description can be used as the subject of an expression independently. It is complete expression and a complete expression is always a name of an object designated by it. Definite description, like proper name, designates an object and can be used independently as the subject of a statement. | |
Keywords: Knowledge, Description, Proper name, Sense, Reference, Complete expression | |