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Horwich I 12
Def Judgment/Falsehood/Russell: Every judgment is a relation of the mind to different objects where one of the objects in turn is a relation.
>Complex/Russell, >Relation/Russell.
Perception: cannot be wrong (unlike the judgment).
It is always complex. - E.g. Knife left of the book.
Def Truth/Russell: Judgment: is true if the corresponding complex exists.
Thesis: truth is mind-dependent and consciousness-dependent.
Complex: as a belief object it does not contain the judging person. Therefore, the question of what truth is, is regardless of how we experience it. (1)
>Truth/Russell.


1. B. Russell, "On the Nature of Truth and Falsehood", in: Philosophical Essays, New York 1996, pp. 170-185 - reprinted in: Paul Horwich (Ed.) Theories of Truth, Aldershot 1994

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