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    Supports→'The present king of France is bald' expresses a quantificational proposition

    Appeal to nonexistent kings (such as a present king of France, since France is currently kingless) is dubious

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    This extended Frege’s idea that natural language misleads us about the structure of the propositions we assert. Russell went on to apply this hypothesis to what became a famous puzzle. Even though France is currently kingless, ‘The present king of France is bald’ can be used to express a proposition. The sentence is not meaningless; it has implications. So if the proposition consists of a function indicated with ‘\(\textrm{Bald}(\ )\)’ and an argument indicated with ‘The present king of France’,

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