Franz Brentano’s Analysis of Truth
Franz Brentano 1 was an important philosopher, but for a long time his importance was under-estimated. At least in the English speaking countries, he came to be remembered best as the initiator of a philoso phical position which he in fact abandoned for good and sufficient 2 reasons. His ultimate a...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
1965, 1965
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1965 |
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- I. Introduction to Franz Brentano’s Philosophy
- 1. Problems of Interpretation
- 2. General
- II. The Early Position
- 1. About the concept of truth. Early criticism of the correspondence theory
- 2. Arguments for the Existence of entia rationis
- III. The Transition
- 1. Analysis of Linguistic Function
- 2. Arguments against the Existence of entia rationis
- IV. The Transition and Background
- 1. Mental Acts
- 2. Judgements
- 3. An attempt to retain the correspondence theory without entia rationis
- V. Late position (critical part)
- 1. Criticism of the correspondence formula res
- 2. Criticism of the correspondence formula intellectus and adequatio
- VI. Late position (positive part)
- 1. Truth
- 2. Evidence
- VII. Ramifications of the analysis of truth
- 1. Self-evident judgements, ‘a priori’ and ‘a posteriori’
- 2. The relation between self-evident and demonstrable knowledge
- Concluding Remarks
- Appendices