Full Idea
Every property of the object seems to demand a strictly correlative property of the content, and the content, therefore, must have every complexity belonging to the object.
Gist of Idea
The complexity of the content correlates with the complexity of the object
Source
Bertrand Russell (Meinong on Complexes and Assumptions [1904], p.55)
Book Reference
Russell,Bertrand: 'Essays in Analysis', ed/tr. Lackey,Douglas [George Braziller 1973], p.55
A Reaction
This claim gives a basis for his 'congruence' account of the correspondence theory of truth. It strikes me as false. If I talk of the 'red red robin', I don't mention the robin's feet. He ignores the psychological selection we make in abstraction.
Related Idea
Idea 5427 Truth is when a mental state corresponds to a complex unity of external constituents [Russell]