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The present king of France is bald.
by gizajob 3y ago
The present king of France is bald.
- ptx 3y agoDoes that work, though? If you're talking about a set of kings, then the set can be empty. But "the king" – isn't that more like Kotlin's single() method, which throws an exception if the number of elements is not 1?
- gizajob 3y agoIt's a Bertrand Russel joke, and an issue that caused him to want to fix and rebuild formal logic from top to bottom, to differentiate statements like that which aren't really part of reality from functionally identical statements that are part of reality.