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Single Idea 23455

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

Full Idea

When I judge 'Socrates is human', the meaning is completed by the act of judging.

Gist of Idea

The meaning of 'Socrates is human' is completed by a judgement

Source

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

Book Ref

Morris,Michael: 'Guidebook to Wittgenstein's Tractatus' [Routledge 2008], p.84

A Reaction

Morris says this is Russell's multiple-relations theory of judgement. The theory accompanies the rejection of the concept of the unified proposition. When I hear 'Socrates had a mole on his shoulder' I get the meaning without judging.

Related Idea

Idea 23453 Propositions as objects of judgement don't exist, because we judge several objects, not one [Russell/Whitehead]

The 20 ideas with the same theme [how we evaluate truth and falsehood]:

6594 Stoics said that correct judgement needs an invincible criterion of truth [Stoic school, by Fogelin]
1884 If we utter three steps of a logical argument, they never exist together [Sext.Empiricus]
22108 First grasp what it is, then its essential features; judgement is their compounding and division [Aquinas]
22061 Judgement is distinguishing concepts, and seeing their relations [Fichte, by Siep]
18265 We don't judge by combining subject and concept; we get a concept by splitting up a judgement [Frege]
21725 The multiple relations theory says assertions about propositions are about their ingredients [Russell/Whitehead, by Linsky,B]
23474 A judgement is a complex entity, of mind and various objects [Russell/Whitehead]
23455 The meaning of 'Socrates is human' is completed by a judgement [Russell/Whitehead]
23480 The multiple relation theory of judgement couldn't explain the unity of sentences [Morris,M on Russell/Whitehead]
18275 Only the act of judging completes the meaning of a statement [Russell/Whitehead]
5375 Knowledge of truths applies to judgements; knowledge by acquaintance applies to sensations and things [Russell]
21711 Russell's 'multiple relations' theory says beliefs attach to ingredients, not to propositions [Russell, by Linsky,B]
5427 Truth is when a mental state corresponds to a complex unity of external constituents [Russell]
17613 We should judge principles by the science, not science by some fixed principles [Zermelo]
13980 If you like judgments and reject propositions, what are the relata of incoherence in a judgment? [Ryle]
7535 If all beliefs are propositional, then belief and judgement are the same thing [Monk]
12608 Concepts are distinguished by roles in judgement, and are thus tied to rationality [Peacocke]
22273 Traditionally there are twelve categories of judgement, in groups of three [Potter]
13239 Judgement is always predicating a property of a subject [Beall/Restall]
23554 Judgements can be unreflective and non-inferential, yet rational, by being sensitive to experience [Fricker,M]