“… in this chapter we shall consider the word the in the singular, and in the next chapter we shall consider the word the in the plural. It may be thought excessive to devote two chapters to one word, but to the philosophical mathematician it is a word of very great importance: like Browning’s Grammarian with the enclitic δε, I would give the doctrine of this word if I were “dead from the waist down” and not merely in prison.”
Russell, Bertrand, (1919). Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy.
