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"'''On Denoting'''" is an essay by [[Bertrand Russell]]. It was published in the philosophy journal ''[[Mind (journal)|Mind]]'' in 1905. In it, Russell introduces and advocates his theory of denoting phrases, according to which definite descriptions and indefiniteother descriptions"denoting phrases ... never have any meaning in themselves, formulatesbut every proposition in whose verbal expression they occur has a meaning." This theory of descriptions later became the basis for Russell's [[descriptivist theory of names|descriptivism]] with regard to proper names, and characteriseshis view that proper names asare "disguised" or "abbreviated" [[definite descriptions]].

In the 1920s, [[Frank P. Ramsey]] referred to the essay as "that paradigm of philosophy".<ref>{{citation