The Development of Russell's Diagrams for Judgment

Abstract

<p>In his 1918 lectures, <i>The Philosophy of Logical Atomism</i>, Russell discusses the impossibility of drawing a diagram or "map-in-space" of the form of belief (judgment). In this paper, I argue that an examination of diagrams appended to Russell's <i>Theory of Knowledge</i> shows him already anticipating this symbolizing difficulty in 1913 and—in the midst of attempting to adopt Wittgenstein's doctrine of propositional bipolarity—jettisoning attempts to diagram the form of belief.</p>