ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the notion of a choice function, and illustrates their use in the representation of definite descriptions and certain cross-sentential anaphora. It is such cross-sentential anaphora in intensional locutions that Walter Edelberg is concerned with, from a grammatical point of view. The cahpter shows that that his more ontological approach must give way to a choice function, specifically epsilon term analysis. It deals with other cases given by Edelberg in The Epsilon Calculus’ Problematic’, and elsewhere, but the present set of cases usefully illustrate the opposition between respective metaphysical views. The advantage of the present account of the attitudes is thus not just that it reduces the metaphysics in Edelberg’s, and other accounts, returning to a natural conception of grammar. There are also major theoretical difficulties with those other accounts, in trying to talk about, and yet, contradictorily, keep private, the objects on people’s minds, which the present account has no trouble with, at all.
