Abstract
Abstract This chapter is concerned with the contrast between two kinds of sentences involving de finite descriptions. When people are asked to assign truth-values, they feel ‘squeamish’ about The king of France is bald , while they confidently and without hesitation judge My friend went for a drive with the king of France last week to be false. This contrast has often been taken to show that the first sentence has no truth-value because its presupposition (that there is a king of France) is not satisfied, while the second sentence has no presupposition of existence (of a king of France) and is thus simply false.
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