Paul Elbourne and Paul Grice on 'the'

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Paul Elbourne dares criticize Grice -- and he makes some good points, too!

Cheers!

Preface
1. Introduction
2. Situation Semantics
3. The Definite Article
4. Presupposition
5. Referential and Attributive
6. Anaphora
7. Modality Existence Entailments
8. Existence Entailments
9. Incompleteness
10. Pronouns
11. Conclusion
Bibliography

Paul Elbourne (who shares the first name with Grice's second name: Paul) quotes from "Vacuous Names" and "Presupposition and Conversational Implicature" -- brilliantly.