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Single Idea 23474

[catalogued under 18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 6. Judgement / a. Nature of Judgement]

Full Idea

When a judgement occurs, there is a certain complex entity, composed of the mind and the various objects of the judgement.

Gist of Idea

A judgement is a complex entity, of mind and various objects

Source

B Russell/AN Whitehead (Principia Mathematica [1913], p.44)

Book Reference

Morris,Michael: 'Guidebook to Wittgenstein's Tractatus' [Routledge 2008], p.83


A Reaction

This is Russell's multiple-relation theory of judgement, which replaced his earlier belief in unified propositions (now 'false abstractions'). He seems to have accepted Locke's view, that the act of judgement produces the unity.