Full Idea
Truth and falsehood are properties of beliefs and statements, so a world of mere matter would contain no truth or falsehood.
Gist of Idea
Truth and falsehood are properties of beliefs and statements
Source
Bertrand Russell (Problems of Philosophy [1912], Ch.12)
Book Reference
Russell,Bertrand: 'The Problems of Philosophy' [OUP 1995], p.70
A Reaction
Can it be beliefs AND statements? What about propositions? All that matters here is to establish that truth is a feature of certain mental states. This makes possible my slogan that "the brain is a truth-machine". Out there are the 'facts'.