Abstract: The sentence quoted in the title is from Russell’s On Denoting. There it is a kind of joke, intended to show a certain scope ambiguity. My current interest in the sentence stems from it being at the intersection of two larger projects I have been involved in for some years. The first is MSDRT (‘Mental State Discourse Representation Theory’), an extension of DRT designed to deal with sentences used to make complex attitude attributions. The second is a project about the syntax and semantics of the different forms and constructions – positive, comparative, equative and others -- of gradable adjectives (like ‘large’, ‘long’, ‘happy’ and countless others). The analysis of Russell’s sentence I will present combines results from these two projects. In my presentation of this analysis I will sketch the basic features of the syntax-semantics frameworks developed in these projects and show how they can be combined into a single overarching framework, suitable for sentences like this one from Russell.