ABSTRACT
There is, however, an alternative way of holding that a judgment has a single object, which it would be well to consider before we pass on. In the above-mentioned essay Mr Russell asserts that a perception, which unlike a judgment he regards as infallible, has a single object, for instance, the complex object ' knife-to-left-of-book \ This complex object can, I think, be identified with what many people (and Mr Russell now) would call the fact that the knife is to the left of the book ; we could, for instance, say that we perceived this fact. And just as if we take any true proposition such as that Caesar did not die in his bed, we can form a corresponding phrase beginning with ' the fact that ' and talk about the fact that he did not die in his bed, so Mr Russell supposed that to any true proposition there corresponded a complex object.
