Single Idea 23480

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

Full Idea

When Russell moved to his multiple relation theory of judgement …he then faced difficulties making sense of the unity of sentences.

Gist of Idea

The multiple relation theory of judgement couldn't explain the unity of sentences

Source

comment on B Russell/AN Whitehead (Principia Mathematica [1913], p.44) by Michael Morris - Guidebook to Wittgenstein's Tractatus 3A

Book Reference

Morris,Michael: 'Guidebook to Wittgenstein's Tractatus' [Routledge 2008], p.117


A Reaction

Roughly, he seems committed to saying that there is only unity if you think there is unity; there is no unity in a sentence prior to the act of judgement.