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Single Idea 14616

[filed under theme 19. Language / D. Propositions / 3. Concrete Propositions ]

Full Idea

A 'Russellian proposition' is an ordered sequence containing the individual, along with properties and relations.

Gist of Idea

A 'Russellian proposition' is an ordered sequence of individual, properties and relations

Source

Robert C. Stalnaker (Merely Possible Propositions [2010], p.22)

Book Ref

'Modality', ed/tr. Hale,B/Hoffman,A [OUP 2010], p.22


A Reaction

Since Russell took properties and relations to be features of reality, this made the whole proposition a feature of reality. This is utterly different from what I understand by the word 'proposition', which is a feature of thought, not of the world.