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Russell held the view that most of the apparent proper names in English are in fact " disguised definite descriptions ".

So " Aristotle " is understood as " The pupil of Plato and teacher of Alexander ", or by some other unique description.

Although Russell explicitly rejected Frege's notion of sense, he rejected it just for proper names.

But Russell also held the view ( not evident in the Mont Blanc example ) that most of the " proper names " in English are not names at all, but descriptions in disguise.

Possibly the only real proper names were demonstrative pronouns like this and that ( directed at an object that can be immediately perceived ).

So in fact if Frege's view was " descriptivist ", then he effectively agrees with Russell on most of the apparent " proper names " of ordinary language: Frege thinks that " Aristotle " is a name, with a sense, which is equivalent to some description.

Russell thinks that Aristotle is not really a name, but is ( in disguised form ) just such a description.