We may restate our theory as follows: If we take such a belief as “Othello believes that Desdemona loves Cassio,” we will call Desdemona and Cassio the “object-terms,” and loving the “object-relation.” If there is a complex unity “Desdemona’s love for Cassio,” consisting of the object-terms related by the object-relation in the same order as they have in the belief, then this complex unity is called the “fact corresponding to the belief.” Thus a belief is true when there is a corresponding fact, and is false when there is no corresponding fact.

It will be seen that minds do not “create” truth or falsehood. They create beliefs, but when once the beliefs are created, the mind cannot make them true or false, except in the special case where they concern future things which are within the power of the person believing, such as catching trains. What makes a belief true is a “fact,” and this fact does not (except in exceptional cases) in any way involve the mind of the person who has the belief.