Download or read book Aspects of a Theory of Singular Reference written by William J. Greenberg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-12-06 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1985. This study concerns the problem of treating identity as a relation between an object and itself. It addresses the Russellian and Fregean solutions and goes on to present in the first part a surfacist account of belief-context ambiguity requiring neither differences in relative scope nor distinctions between sense and reference. The second part offers an account of negative existentials, necessity and identity-statements which resolves problems unlike the Russell-Frege analyses. This is a detailed work in linguistics and philosophy.