 For Brentano the starting point of a theory of judgement is our consciousness of our acceptance — in his terminology the acknowledgement (Annerkennung) — of our own mental acts and the objects of (outer) perception. From this starting point he tries to capture what seems to us to be a propositional attitude. As we will see in section 5 Brentano held (at least for a time) the view that a judgement that something is so-and-so supervenes on some acknowledgments.