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of possessives, as in "my brother" or "Doris' egg salad sandwich," though
perhaps we might paraphrase those along the lines of "the brother of me.")
Here is Russell's contextual definition of "the." Let us take a paradigmatic
sentence, of the form "The F is G."
(5) The author of Waverley was Scotch.4
(5) appears to be a simple subjectpredicate sentence, referring to an
individual (Sir Walter Scott) and predicating something (Scottishness) of
him. But appearances are deceiving, Russell says. Notice that the ostensible
singular term, "The author of Waverley," consists of our troublesome word
"the" pasted onto the front of a predicative expression, and notice too that
the meaning of that expression figures crucially in our ability to recognize
or pick out the expression's referent; to find the referent we have to look for
someone who did write Waverley. Russell suggests that "the" abbreviates a
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