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Paul Elbourne, Definite Descriptions (Oxford Studies in Semantics and Pragmatics 1). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. Pp. ix + 251.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 May 2014

Elizabeth Coppock*
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Department of Philosophy, Linguistics and Theory of Science, University of Gothenburg, Box 200, 405 30 Gothenburg, Sweden. elisabeth.coppock@gu.se
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