Provenance
Source & edition record
This page records where the text came from, what changed in presentation, and what remains unverified.
Bibliographic source
- Work
- On Denoting
- Author
- Bertrand Russell
- First publication
- Mind, 1905, vol. XIV, no. 4, pp. 479-493. DOI: 10.1093/mind/xiv.4.479
- Source edition
- Mind, New Series, vol. XIV, no. 4, London: Williams and Norgate, 1905, pp. 479-493
- Accessed
- 2026-08-20
- Verification
- source-compared
- Source snapshot SHA-256
b4418e1b020510564061f8d0e4ca2034476ec7f3aa608fb426150417e35f4e93
Transformations
- Removed the rendered Wikisource wrapper and the work-specific excluded matter recorded in the source manifest.
- Preserved source wording, spelling, punctuation, order, and plain-text emphasis markers.
- Normalised mechanical whitespace and line wrapping, while preserving diagrams and tables verbatim.
- Added semantic section files, stable routes, source-fragment links, and deterministic anchors.
- Preserved the frozen Wikisource transcription except for exact, count-bound corrections recorded against the original scan.
- Converted bracket-number note markers and definitions into stable section-local Markdown footnotes.
- Removed Wikisource navigation, licensing chrome, link markup, editor tags, and a later editorial footnote while preserving the fourteen original notes.
- Restored first-publication wording, including British spelling, an omitted sentence on p. 490, and several demonstrable transcription errors through exact count-bound corrections.
- Normalised quotation marks and mechanical whitespace while preserving wording, emphasis, logical notation, paragraph order, and note relationships.
- Mapped every stable paragraph anchor to the original Mind pages 479-493.
Edition collation
The rendered text derives from a frozen Wikisource transcription but was compared throughout with the exact 1905 Mind scan. Count-bound corrections restore first-publication wording and remove later editorial matter.
Witnesses
- Mind first publication, 1905: Exact first-publication witness, printed pp. 479-493. PDF SHA-256
abfa1175a871bdd2db7eb1707e69532b58feca64ba508bcc78c5963731caaeba. - Wikisource transcription: Readable transcription witness, frozen before count-bound scan corrections. PDF SHA-256
a9fa49aab7c9a576b14bc217b89a9d05f9520c59d91e7f9fa5bc1ebd8cc2f540.
Substantive earlier readings
| Location | Earlier witness | Rendered source edition |
|---|---|---|
| 1905 p. 479 and passim | centre; favour; endeavour; Solar System | center; favor; endeavor; solar system |
| 1905 p. 490 | Thus 'the present King of France is bald' is certainly false; and ... | Sentence omitted |
| 1905 p. 492 | containing; thou art; outside a logic-book; there is anything | contain; thou are; outside of a logic-book; there is an anything |
| Later editorial note | No note after 'Scott wrote Waverley' | Robert Charles Marsh editorial note added in Logic and Knowledge |
Original-page mapping
Paragraph anchors were reconciled to the following scans. The source text remains the frozen edition identified above.
- Mind first publication, 1905, pp. 479-493; 73 mapped paragraphs.
Reviewed by OpenAI Codex for Web Editions on 2026-08-20.
Rights status
public-domain. The article was published in the United States and United Kingdom in 1905 and is public domain in the United States. Wikisource identifies the work as public domain in the United States. This publication decision applies to US availability; readers elsewhere should check local law. View the rights record ↗