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Full Idea
There is no determining the full content of what someone thinks or believes from the individual things that he thinks or believes; we must also look at the threads that tie the contents of these thoughts or beliefs together.
Gist of Idea
You cannot determine the full content from a thought's intrinsic character, as relations are involved
Source
Kit Fine (Semantic Relationism [2007], Intro)
Book Ref
Fine,Kit: 'Semantic Relationism' [OUP 2007], p.3
A Reaction
I'm not sure what 'full' content could possibly mean. Does that include all our background beliefs which we hardly ever articulate. Content comes in degrees, or needs an arbitrary boundary?
Related Idea
Idea 15587 That two utterances say the same thing may not be intrinsic to them, but involve their relationships [Fine,K]