 An example of such a distinction is the following. The sophisma ‘Only God being God is necessary’ (‘Tantum deum esse deum est necessario’) contains the syncategorematic word ‘only’ (‘tantum’). The sophisma is solved by making a distinction between two different functions of the word ‘only’, in that the exclusion it makes can pertain to the expression ‘God’, or to the entire phrase ‘God being God’. In the former case the sentence is true, but in the latter it is false (Ebbesen and Goubier 2010, vol. I, p. 122). Another example of a problematic sentence containing the disjunctive expression ‘or’ is the sophisma ‘Every proposition or its contradictory opposite is true’. Some authors considered this proposition as true, but others thought it was ambiguous. In one way, the distribution of ‘every’ could be taken as ranging over the disjunction, in which case the proposition reads ‘Any proposition or its contradictory is true’, which is true. In another way, the disjunction could be taken to cover the distribution, in which case the proposition reads ‘Every proposition is true or every contradictory opposite is true’, which is false. A final example of a distinction concerns the sophisma ‘The white can be black’ (an awkward translation of the sentence ‘Album potest esse nigrum’), which can be taken to mean either ‘The thing that is white can be black’, which is true, or ‘It can be the case that the white thing is black’ (at the same time, that is), which is false. The truth or falsity of the proposition then depends on a scope distinction regarding the expression, ‘can be’.