Roughly, the view that sentences in which phrases of the form the-so-and-so appear can be reduced to more revealing logical forms in which “the” disappears and in which there is no longer any temptation to think that such phrases are like proper names (which see). E. G. “The present king of France is bald” becomes “There exists something which is presently kind of France and there is no other individual who is such and that individual is bald. ” Russell’s theory has been called a paradigm of philosophy.