BRACERS Record Detail for 135571
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BR commented on Stout's paper, "The Object of Thought and Real Being".
BR TO G.F. STOUT, [MAR. 1911]
BRACERS 135571. AL/MS. McMaster. B&R Hh11.02
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As regards the sense of the relation r in judging A r B. you make a point which had already occurred to me. But it is met by a slight re-wording of the account of sense in judgment, and this re-wording is in any case necessary to my theory. There must never, so I now perceive, be any relation having sense in a complex except the relating relation of that complex; hence, in the act of judging A r B, the sense must be confined to judging, and must not appear in the r. But judging being a multiple relation, its sense is not merely twofold like that of a dual relation, and the judging, alone may arrange the terms in the order Mind, A, r, B, as opposed to Mind, B, r, A. This has the same effect as if r had a sense in the judgment, and gives all that one wants without being obnoxious to your objections.
