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The document summarizes key points about descriptions from Principia Mathematica. It defines a description as a phrase of the form "the term which satisfies f6", where f6 is some function satisfied by one and only one argument. It defines any proposition containing a description in terms of existence and uniqueness. Descriptions are treated formally as functions, and their scopes are made explicit to avoid ambiguities. Equivalences are given for propositions involving single and multiple descriptions.
- Author
- Gigi Stefanov
- Language
- EN