ABSTRACT
This chapter deals with the category constraint and the various constraints imposed on the multiple relation theory of judgment (MRTJ) by type theory, conception of 'significance' reduces merely to the classical wide direction problem. It alludes to the fact that Stout's concern is just more fundamental than many of the concerns attributed to Wittgenstein. The chapter demonstrates Stout's concern to solve the significance concern in its wake – even in a way that respects the trenchant no constraints constraint. It ultimately underlines how fundamental Stout's representation-concern really is for the MRTJ, and for the metaphysics of meaning in general. The representation-concern has been solved for the MRTJ by Mark Sainsbury, and in a related fashion by Fraser MacBride's precisification of the 1918-MRTJ. MacBride's suggested precisification of Russell's 1918-MRTJ, for it shares certain merits with Sainsbury's MRTJ, and has certain advantages over it, at the cost, perhaps, of certain disadvantages.
