● You can translate a description into a plan, and the same rules apply when you translate
one language into another
○ a wrong idea of how language works destroys the whole of logic
■ one such wrong idea is the exclusion of intention from
language
● The picture of what is intended is essential to intention
○ for Russell et al, recognition of intention rests in seeing an external
relation
○ for the picture theory recognition is seeing an internal relation
■ hence for Russell there are three ingredients in
determining the truth of a thought: the thought, the fact and the recognition. For
W it is only the first two
● Russell’s theory sees an order as executed where the orderer is satisfied
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