?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Acta+Cum+Fundamentis+in+Re&rft.creator=Smith%2C+B.&rft.subject=Metaphysics&rft.description=It+will+be+the+thesis+of+this+paper+that+there+are+among+our+mental+acts+some+which+fall+into+the+category+of+real+material+relations.+That+is%3A+some+acts+are+necessarily+such+as+to+involve+a+plurality+of+objects+as+their+relata+or+fundamenta.+Suppose+Bruno+walks+into+his+study+and+sees+a+cat.+To+describe+the+seeing%2C+here%2C+as+a+relation%2C+is+to+affirm+that+it+serves+somehow+to+tie+Bruno+to+the+cat.+Bruno's+act+of+seeing%2C+unlike+his+feeling+depressed%2C+his+putative+thinking-about-Santa-Claus+or+his+musing%2C+abstractedly%2C+about+the+tallest+spy%2C+has+at+least+two+fundamenta%3A+it+is%2C+as+a+matter+of+necessity%2C+dependent+for+its+existence+upon+both+Bruno+himself+and+the+cat+that+he+sees.+This+idea+will+naturally+raise+echoes+of+Russell's+doctrine+of+knowledge+by+acquaintance.+'I+am+acquainted+with+an+object'%2C+Russell+tells+us%2C+'when+I+have+a+direct+cognitive+relation+to+that+object%2C+i.+e.+when+I+am+directly+aware+of+the+object+itself'+(1918%2C+p.+209).+And+indeed+a+distinction+in+many+ways+like+that+between+acquaintance+and+description+will+find+a+place+within+the+theory+here+projected%2C+but+there+are+crucial+differences.&rft.date=1984&rft.type=Journal+(Paginated)&rft.type=PeerReviewed&rft.format=text%2Fhtml&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F305%2F1%2FActa.html&rft.identifier=++Smith%2C+B.++(1984)+Acta+Cum+Fundamentis+in+Re.++%5BJournal+(Paginated)%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F305%2F