Abstract

cannot diverge in truth value, since they express the same proposition. The problem for the Russellian (or the 'Millian') is that a puzzle of David Kaplan's (1968-69: 511) seems to show that they can diverge in truthvalue and that therefore, since the Russellian holds that (1) and (2) express the same proposition, the Russellian view is contradictory. Imagine that Ralph has read Middlemarch and The Mill on the Floss by one 'George Eliot' but is too benighted to realize that the author is

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