ABSTRACT
The arguments for a theory of propositions are many and seemingly attractive, all being alike in that they show that propositions of the kind postulated satisfy the conditions which it can be seen that any theory of judgment must satisfy if it is to be acceptable. First, the theory makes possible what may be called ‘objective truths’ (and correspondingly objective falsehoods), e.g. the truths of mathematics or of logic. Secondly the proposition theory allows for what may be called the ‘publicity’ of our judgments, and for the possibility of communication by means of language. According to other theories, a unity is presented to the mind in judgment, but according to this theory the unity of the objects of judgment is produced by the act or relation of judging itself. What is called belief or judgment is nothing but this relation of believing or judging, which relates a mind to several things other than itself’.
