"On Denoting" is an essay by Bertrand Russell. It was published in the philosophy journal Mind in 1905. In it, Russell introduces and advocates his theory of denoting phrases, according to which definite descriptions and other "denoting phrases ... never have any meaning in themselves, but every proposition in whose verbal expression they occur has a meaning."[1] This theory later became the basis for Russell's descriptivism with regard to proper names, and his view that proper names are "disguised" or "abbreviated" definite descriptions.
In the 1920s, Frank P. Ramsey referred to the essay as "that paradigm of philosophy".[2][3] In the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry Descriptions, Peter Ludlow singled the essay out as "the paradigm of philosophy", and called it a work of "tremendous insight"; provoking discussion and debate among philosophers of language and linguists for over a century.[4]
^Russell, Bertrand (October 1905). "On Denoting". Mind. 14 (56). Oxford: Oxford University Press on behalf of the Mind Association: 479–493. doi:10.1093/mind/XIV.4.479. ISSN 0026-4423. JSTOR 2248381.
^Frank Plumpton Ramsey, Richard Bevan Braithwaite (2001), Richard Bevan Braithwaite (ed.), The foundations of mathematics and other logical essays, Routledge, p. 263, ISBN 978-0-415-22546-5, retrieved 28 August 2010
^A. W. Sparkes (1991), Talking philosophy: a wordbook, Taylor & Francis, p. 199, ISBN 978-0-415-04223-9, retrieved 28 August 2010
^Ludlow, Peter, "Descriptions", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Summer 2005 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL=http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2005/entries/descriptions/
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