What is Description?
{{Wiktionary|description}} A '''description''' is giving the [[wikt:characteristic|characteristics]] or look of something. People describe things by [[writing]], or by [[Speech|speaking]]. Description is one of the four [[Rhetorical modes]], the other three are [[exposition]], [[argumentation]], and [[narration]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=http://archive.org/details/randomhousehand00crew|title=The Random House handbook|last=Crews|first=Frederick C.|date=1977|publisher=New York : Random House|others=Internet Archive|isbn=978-0-394-31211-8}}</ref> [[definite description|Definite descriptions]] is when somebody describes something once, and the description never changes. Some famous [[Mathematician|mathematicians]], for example [[Bertrand Russell]] or [[Gottlob Frege]], wrote about definite descriptions. == References == {{Reflist}}{{sci-stub}} [[Category:Logic]] [[Category:Philosophy]]