ABSTRACT
This chapter sketches the rapid evolutions that the Multiple Relation Theory of Judgement (MRTJ) underwent between 1910 and 1913. The MRTJ, as it appeared in Bertrand Russell's Philosophical Essays of 1910, included an epicycle. The 1910 epicycle was the stipulation that the object-relation 'as it enters into the judgement must have a 'sense'. Russell wanted the object-relation to enter the judgement as an object - i.e., not as a relating-relation - but to do so along with a direction, as if a relation's direction was somehow distinct from the relation itself. The relation of judgement itself is the relating-relation that relates the subject to its multiple objects; those objects are called the object-terms. On G. F. Stout's binary relation theory of judgement, the object of the belief is a possibility, made true by correspondence to an actual fact.
