Essays Tagged: "proper names"

Illusion of Reality in John Barth's "Lost in the Funhouse"

cept is first introduced in the second paragraph as the explanation of initials or blanks replacing proper names in fiction-writing. The "attempt" at disguising a place name by shortening it, is reall ...

(1 pages) 36 0 4.0 May/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

The Climax of "I Want You Women Up North to Know"

uals. This shift in mood is accomplished by three devices: imagery, grouping, and capitalization of proper names.The imagery in this passage helps turn the tone of the poem from victimization to anger ... , but anonymity is not.A final significant device in this passage is the use of capitalization. The proper names of the workers have been sporadically capitalized earlier in the poem, but here they ar ...

(2 pages) 17 0 2.0 Jul/2005

Subjects: Humanities Essays

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was the first to break ground in identifying the first demotic symbols. He identified a few of the proper names in the demotic text, after comparing them with the same names found in the Greek text. ... the deciphering the Rosetta Stone as well. After much researching, Young was able to prove that the proper names in the hieroglyphics section of the stone did in fact have phonetic value, and were not ...

(4 pages) 9 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: History Term Papers > Middle Eastern History > Ancient Egypt

Russell’s Theory of Descriptions can be best understood as a

rege failed to make in attempting to logically analyze ordinary language was that between logically proper names and descriptions. Russell believes that many of the terms that Frege had considered to ... , but were rather sorts of "truncated descriptions." Russell argues that the meaning of a logically proper name is "the individual thing it designates." "A logically proper name is meaningless unless ...

(6 pages) 1215 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry

Sense and Reference

t there is "a relation between objects, or between names or signs of objects."� Additionally proper names do not just have a reference, but also a sense also. Originally Frege used the statemen ... t sense is grasped "by everyone who knows the language or the totality of designations of which the proper name is a part"�"The reference and sense of a sign are to be distinguished from the as ...

(8 pages) 12 0 0.0 Apr/2011

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Classical Philosophy