Footnote 1:

This important qualification is due to my wife. If she is deceiving him, the case is very different., Mary is not a baroness. Does John love Mary?

The answer may or may not be positive. Suppose that unbeknownst to Mary, Mary is a duchess, a rank that takes significant precedence over a baroness. Then, most likely, we could still say that John loves Mary.Not so if John loves the fact that Mary is no more than a baroness, which might be the case if John moves in exalted company that he despises. But that is a less common case.

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