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Bertrand Russell - Denotation

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...words: everything and nothing and something, which Russell's formulates as:
C(everything) means 'C(x) is always true';
C(nothing) means '"C(x) is false'' is always true';
C(something) means 'It is false that "C(x) is false'' is always true.' (Russell, 1905).
The terms everything, nothing and something have no meaning in isolation, however, they do have meaning in propositions that contain these terms. These are denoting phrases that have no meaning in themselves, there must be a proposition to give them meaning.
Russell provided examples of denoting phrases: "a man, any man, every man, the present King of France... the center of mass of the Solar System, ...." Thus, denoting phrases could be a definite description that really does not denote anything or a definite description that does denote something specific. It could also be an ambiguous phrase that uses an indefinite description. Russell also said that a denoting phrase might not denote...

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