The Theory Of Russell's Description And Its Influence To Linguistic Philosophy

The Theory of Russell's Description has made a great contribution to Logic, which also has made a tremendous influence to philosophy, especially to the language philosophy. It is a symbol that means that the logical philosophy has developed in an important level. The logical analysis method in The Theory of Russell's Description, which made philosophical research attain a great progress, has become a method of philosophical research. This method initiates a new era of language philosophy.In fact, the revolution of "linguistic turn" which happens in 20th century is the direction of philosophical research method. Philosophiers pay more attentions to language in the view of modern logic and make logical analyse to language. So the linguistic analyse is the logical analyse. It reflects that "logic is the essence of philosophy". The construction of The Theory of Russell's Description is a classical work which can be used to the philosophical research. Therefore, it is called "the model of philosophy".In order to solve the problem which refers to "Being" and how can make a proposition without subject meaningful, Russell starts with familiar proposition, such as "Golden Mountain Exists", which is called "Paradox of Existing" in philosophy. And he puts forward his Theory of Description.The thesis fucuses on the content of The Theory of Russell's Description.And it illustrates that logical analyse method in his theory has made a great progress to the modern linguistic philosophy. The method makes philosophical inference more clear.And makes philosophical research have more results.The thesis is divided into three parts:The first part: The philosophical background of The Theory of Russell's Description. The section pay attention to Frege's Connotion Theory of Proper Name and Russell's Logical Atomism.And it points out the significance and inadequate of Frege's theory.The second part: The Theory of Russell's Description. This part refers to the starting points of Russell's Description: The Theory of Acquaintance. And Russell has classification to Proper Name and specific contents of The Theory of Russell's Description.The third part: The influence of The Theory of Russell's Description to linguistic philosophy. This part discusses modern logic and the feature of linguistic philosophy which is based on logical analyse.It emphasizes on the influence of The Theory of Russell's Description to linguistic philosophy.