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:2. Strawson's approach: Both "my wife is pregnant" and "my wife is not pregnant" use a wrong presupposition (i.e. that there exists a referent which can be described with the noun phrase my wife) and therefore can not be assigned truth values.
:2. Strawson's approach: Both "my wife is pregnant" and "my wife is not pregnant" use a wrong presupposition (i.e. that there exists a referent which can be described with the noun phrase my wife) and therefore can not be assigned truth values.
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand_Russell Bertrand Russell] tries to solve this [[dilemma]] with two [[interpretation]]s of the negated sentence:
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand_Russell Bertrand Russell] tries to solve this [[dilemma]] with two [[interpretation]]s of the negated sentence:
:1. "There exists exactly one person, who is my wife and who is not pregnant"
:1. "There exists exactly one person, who is my wife and who is not pregnant"
