Citations:proper name

English citations of proper name

A phrase that names a specific object

  • 1950, Bertrand Russell, The Principles of Mathematics:
    A proper name, when it occurs in a proposition, is always, at least according to one of the possible ways of analysis (where there are several), the subject that the proposition or some subordinate constituent proposition is about, and not what is said about the subject.
  • 1970, John R. Searle, Speech acts[1]:
    We might clarify some of the points made in this chapter by comparing paradigm proper names with degenerate proper names like "the Bank of England".
  • 2009, Sam Cumming, “Names”, in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy[2]:
    For instance, the proper name ‘Jessica Alba’ consists of two proper nouns: ‘Jessica’ and ‘Alba’.