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Full Idea
Time was when I thought there were propositions, but it does not seem to me very plausible to say that in addition to facts there are also these curious shadowy things going about such 'That today is Wednesday' when it is in fact Tuesday.
Gist of Idea
I know longer believe in shadowy things like 'that today is Wednesday' when it is actually Tuesday
Source
Bertrand Russell (The Philosophy of Logical Atomism [1918], p.197), quoted by Bernard Linsky - Russell's Metaphysical Logic 3.1
Book Ref
Linsky,Bernard: 'Russell's Metaphysical Logic' [CSLI 1999], p.46
A Reaction
[Ref to Papers v8] I take Russell to have abandoned his propositions because his conception of them was mistaken. Presumably my thinking 'Today is Wednesay' conjures up a false proposition, which had not previously existed.