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Full Idea
To explain belief in what is false we shall have to regard what is called belief in a proposition as not a thought related to the proposition, but rather as a thought related to the constituents of the proposition.
Gist of Idea
To explain false belief we should take belief as relating to a proposition's parts, not to the whole thing
Source
Bertrand Russell (Papers of 1906 [1906], V.321), quoted by Michael Potter - The Rise of Analytic Philosophy 1879-1930 40 '1906'
Book Ref
Potter,Michael: 'The Rise of Anaytic Philosophy 1879-1930' [Routledge 2020], p.265
A Reaction
Russell proposed a new theory of judgement, in order to explain erroneous judgements, given that true propositions are identical with facts. Of course there might be errors about the constituents, as well as about their structure. Othello is his example.
Related Idea
Idea 22302 Moor bypassed problems of correspondence by saying true propositions ARE facts [Moore,GE, by Potter]
2284 | I make errors because my will extends beyond my understanding [Descartes] |
5007 | Most errors of judgement result from an inaccurate perception of the facts [Descartes] |
4841 | People make calculation mistakes by misjudging the figures, not calculating them wrongly [Spinoza] |
21542 | Do incorrect judgements have non-existent, or mental, or external objects? [Russell] |
6443 | Surprise is a criterion of error [Russell] |
22306 | To explain false belief we should take belief as relating to a proposition's parts, not to the whole thing [Russell] |
6097 | The theory of error seems to need the existence of the non-existent [Russell] |
5425 | In order to explain falsehood, a belief must involve several terms, not two [Russell] |
23475 | The form of a proposition must show why nonsense is unjudgeable [Wittgenstein] |