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The quantifier restriction is more like a silent demonstra- tive pronoun: "At most one table of that sort," where the context fixes the reference of "that." So we seem to have solved the table problem on Russell's behalf. But there are more aggravated problem cases. Consider (11): (11) If a bishop meets another bishop, the bishop blesses the other bishop. (Heim 1990) For further examples, see Reimer (1992), Stanley and Szabó (2000), Ludlow and Segal (2004) and Lepore (2004). Also, there is still a general problem of how quantifiers get restricted in context, what determines the exact restricted domains (which are almost always vague to boot), and how on earth hearers identify the right domains as quickly and as effortlessly as they do. But we have that general problem anyway; it poses no special objection to Russell's Theory of Descriptions. I pause to offer a partial rebuttal of Strawson's notion that people rather than expressions refer