On Denoting

RUSSELL, B. (1905). On Denoting. Mind, 14(56), 479-493.

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

1905

Volume

14

Issue

56

Pages

479-493

DOI

10.1093/mind/xiv.4.479

DOI registrant

Oxford University Press

Link

https://doi.org/10.1093/mind/XIV.4.479

Cited from

linguistics_semiotics, philosophy

Cited by

3 citations across 3 artifacts.

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Primes

• Compositionality
  • Russell's (1905) analysis of "the King of France is bald" in On Denoting demonstrates compositional clarity: by decomposing the definite description into existential and uniqueness conditions plus the predication, the apparent paradox (what does a non-existent entity's bald-ness mean?)

    This sourceAnalyzes 'the present King of France is bald' by decomposing the definite description into existence, uniqueness, and predication, dissolving the non-reference paradox via compositional decomposition (supports D22-231).

• Ontology
  • Listed in the references but not attached to a specific claim.

Domain-specific

• Plato's Beard
  • Russell's analysis of definite descriptions is important because it can replace an apparently referring phrase with quantified conditions, allowing a sentence to be meaningful and true without a corresponding object.

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