Full Idea
Romulus does not occur in the proposition 'Romulus did not exist'.
Gist of Idea
Romulus does not occur in the proposition 'Romulus did not exist'
Source
Bertrand Russell (The Philosophy of Logical Atomism [1918], §VI)
Book Reference
Russell,Bertrand: 'Russell's Logical Atomism', ed/tr. Pears,David [Fontana 1972], p.100
A Reaction
A very nice paradoxical assertion, which captures the problem of finding the logical form for negative existential statements. Presumably the proposition refers to the mythical founder of Rome, though. He is not, I suppose, rigidly designated.