ABSTRACT
For many years Tim Smiley gave a wonderful series of lectures on Russell’s Theory of Descriptions (the existential quantifi er here has narrow scope: the lectures were different each year). He published his conclusions about Russell’s theory in his brilliant British Academy lecture on ‘The Theory of Descriptions’ (1981). That lecture includes a brief discussion of restricted quantifi ers; but when I attended the lectures (back in 1967!), this topic had a larger place and started me thinking about the issues it raises.
