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alone, is transparent: If Clemens was less than 5 feet tall, then so of course was Twain, "they" being the very same person. Russell's Theory of Descriptions Russell initially posed the four puzzles in terms of definite descriptions rather than proper names, because he was interested in the logic of the word "the." ("It may be thought excessive to devote two chapters [of his Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy] to one word, but to the philosophical mathemati- cian it is a word of very great importance: like Browning's grammarian with the enclitic , I would give the doctrine of this word if I were `dead from the waist down' and not merely in a prison"3 (1919/1971: 167).)  Definite descriptions 13 Not too surprisingly, Russell argued on the basis of the puzzles that definite descriptions do have and contribute meanings that go beyond their referents alone