Russell's elimination of descriptive phrases via contextual definition preserves truth conditions but cannot account for the epistemic difference Jones identifies, confirming his target sense of 'meaning' is selectively narrow.
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# Russell
Russell most commonly refers to **Bertrand Russell**, a highly influential British philosopher, logician, and social critic (1872-1970) who fundamentally changed how we think about logic, language, and knowledge. He's famous for showing that common-sense reasoning can contain hidden contradictions and for arguing that philosophy should use the precision of mathematics to solve problems. Russell also became a prominent public intellectual who wrote about everything from religion to nuclear weapons, making him one of the most important thinkers of the 20th century.
Truth conditions(used to describe how we determine whether a thought accurately represents reality)
The specific circumstances or facts that would make a statement true or false—what has to be the case for a thought to be correct.
meaning(Possible-worlds semantic theory of meaning)
A rule specifying what an expression would stand for if the world were a certain way, rather than what the expression actually stands for in the current circumstance