 This extended Frege’s idea that natural language misleads us about the structure of the propositions we assert. Russell went on to apply this hypothesis to what became a famous puzzle. Even though France is currently kingless, ‘The present king of France is bald’ can be used to express a proposition. The sentence is not meaningless; it has implications. So if the proposition consists of a function indicated with ‘\(\textrm{Bald}(\ )\)’ and an argument indicated with ‘The present king of France’, there must be an argument that is indicated. But appeal to nonexistent kings is, to say the least, dubious. Russell concluded that ‘The present king of France is bald’ expresses a quantificational proposition: