In his letter, Morgan obligingly, but probably unwittingly, demonstrated a wonderfully neat example of Pooterism.

If the moon was a perfectly smooth sphere […] the place when she was dichotomized, […] would depend upon the sun's distance from the earth.

It is sometimes supposed that extensional propositions—in particular Russellian propositions, which are adopted in some neo-Millian views about proper names—are incompatible with intensionalism and presuppositionalism.

Harbor improvements are planned for nine major ports along China's coast; five are being improved to upgrade petroleum transport facilities. Many of the projects involve construction of roads and railways as well as warehouses and oil storage tanks. Included in these plans are developments at the port of Ch'in-huang-tao, Talien and Huang-tao in the northeast and Chan-chiang in the south.