Abstract
Triads of sentences like those below — that is, an affirmative subject-predicate sentence with a definite description in subject position, a negative subject-predicate sentence with the same definite description in subject position, and a sentence affirming that at least one entity of the sort denoted by the definite description exists — are well known for provoking incompatible reactions to the question whether classical two-valued logic provides an appropriate model for the representation of meaning in natural language:
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The King of France is bald.
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The King of France is not bald.
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There is a King of France.
Strawson (1950) and Russell (1905) are classic expressions of conflicting answers to that question.
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Grice, P.H. (1981): “Presupposition and conversational implicature”. In: P. Cole, ed.: Radical Pragmatics. New York: Academic Press, 183–198.
Russell, B. (1905): “On denoting”. Mind 14, 479–499.
Strawson, P.F. (1950): “On referring”. Mind 59, 320–344.
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Tsohatzidis, S.L. (1997). Why Gricean Democracy Is Worse than Either Russellian or Strawsonian Monarchy. In: Rolf, E. (eds) Pragmatik. Linguistische Berichte. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-663-11116-0_18
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