For Russell Minds Do Not Create Truth or Falsehood
Truth and falsehood except in the case of beliefs about our own minds depend upon the relations of mental occurrences to outside things and thus take us beyond the analysis of mental occurrences as they are in. Thus although truth and falsity are properties of beliefs yet they are in a sense extrinsic properties for the condition of the truth of a belief is something not. 2 A belief is rendered true or false by relation to a fact which may lie outside the experience of the person entertaining the belief. . What is Russells meaning when he says Minds do not create truth or falsehood. It will be seen that minds do not create truth or falsehood. In fact truth and falsehood are. It will be seen that minds do not create truth or falsehood. Through this he comes to conclude minds do not create truths or falsehood. They create beliefs but when once the beliefs are created the mind cannot make them true or false except in the spec...


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