Russell poses as a puzzle to solve the truth or falsehood of theexpression "The present King of France is not bald" in relation to the lawof excluded middle. He offers his proposal for a solution with a theory ofdenotation, characterized by an excessive complication, as he himself asserts.We argue that there is a simpler natural logical way out, based on the strictanalysis of the contradictories and opposites of a proposition, and its exclusivedisjunctions.