Keelefilosoofia raamat
(Russell added
that, since it seems the King is neither bald nor not bald, "Hegelians, who love a
synthesis, will probably conclude that he wears a wig" (1905/1956: 48).) I leave it
to you as an exercise to solve this fifth puzzle, in light of Russell's treatments of
the other four.
192 Notes
7 Strawson notes that there are exceptions; occasionally a sentence containing
a nonreferring description is out-and-out false. See Neale (1990), Lasersohn
(1993), and Yablo (2006).
8 G. K. Chesterton bases one of his Father Brown mystery stories, "The Invisible
Man," entirely on this phenomenon.
9 Actually Donnellan's characterizations do not perfectly line up with each other.
For example, even in the referential case as he intends it we do not always "expect
and intend our audience to realize whom we have in mind, and most importantly,
to know that it is this person about whom we are going to say something," for I