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    There is no present king of France (¬∃x[K(x)])

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    where \(K(x) = \textbf{T}\) iff \(x\) is a present king of France, and \(B(x) = \textbf{T}\) iff \(x\) is bald. (For present purposes, set aside worries about the vagueness of ‘bald’.) And as Russell noted, the following contrary reasoning is spurious: every proposition is true or false; so the present king of France is bald or not; so there is a king of France, and he is either bald or not. For let P be the proposition that the king of France is bald. Russell held that P is indeed true or false

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