Russellian accounts of propositional attitudes, as developed by Salmon and Soames, permit an agent to believe and disbelieve a single singular proposition under different guises without contradiction.
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Mental states characteristic of an organism that has a brain, such as beliefs and desires, which computational symbol manipulation alone is insufficient to produce.
singular proposition(Used to explain why proposition (7) would require George Bush to exist in any world where proposition (7) exists.)
A proposition whose constituents include the actual object(s) it is about, such that the proposition cannot exist without those objects existing.
without contradiction(as the result that Russellian accounts permit)
In a way that doesn't logically contradict itself; it's possible and consistent, rather than impossible or self-defeating.