 The consequences of this move are indeed far reaching. Even when we predicate a property of an object, Brentano can say that the predication need not change the character of the judgement that we are making. One may conceive of predication as a two-step process: one first connects the property P with the subject S, thus forming a complex representation of an S-that-is-P; then one acknowledges the complex content and thus forms a judgement. The content is complex, but the judgement itself is the same simple act of acknowledgement.