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Strawson eschews talk of "propositions," and denies that sentences are the kind of things that can be true or false at all. What bears the properties truth and falsity are rather the statements made when speakers succeed in saying something, and not every act of uttering does succeed in that way, for not every meaningful sentence is always used to make a statement.  Definite descriptions 21 Russellians have a standard reply to objection 1, but it depends on some notions that I shall not develop until chapter 13, so I shall postpone it until then. Objection 2 Strawson further criticizes the claim, which he attributes to Russell, that "part of what [a speaker] would be asserting [in uttering (6)] would be that there at present existed one and only one king of France" (1950: 330). That claim too is implausible, for although the speaker presupposes that there is