Abstract
The thesis that the content of judgment is constituted by the mental act of attributing to something (the subject) a property (the predicate) runs up against two objections. The first is the putative existence of simple (one-term) judgment contents ; the second is the force/content distinction, which prevents the act of assertion from becoming a constitutive element of content. We show that, on these questions, there are in fact four possible positions, depending on whether or not we admit the existence of simple judgment contents, and on whether or not we admit that thought contents are intrinsically assertoric. These positions are associated respectively with Aristotle, Brentano, Frege and Spinoza.
