The True and the Evident

ISBN-13: 9780415566186 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 224 str.

Franz Brentano

Opis

A translation of Franz Brentano's posthumous Wahrheit und Evidenz. It includes Brentano's influential lecture On the Concept of Truth, read before the Vienna Philosophical Society and a variety of essays, drawn from the wealth of Brentano's unpublished material.

Spis treści

Part 1: The Earlier View  1. On the Concept of Truth  2. Being in the Sense of the True  3. Descartes’ Classification of Mental Phenomena  4. WindelBand’s Error with Respect to the Classification of Mental Phenomena  5. Critique of Sigwart’s Theory of the Existential and the Negative Judgement  6. On the Evident: Critique of Descartes and Sigwart  Part 2: Transition to the Later View  1. Grammatical  Abstracta as Linguistic Fictions  2. The Equivocal use of the Term ‘Existent’  3. Language  Part 3. The Later View as Set Forth in Letters  1. On the so-called ‘Immanent or Intentional Object’  2. Ens Rationis and Ens Irreale  3. Oppostion to the So-called Contents of Judgement, Propositions, Objectives, States of Affairs  Part 4. The Later View as Set forth in Essays  1. On the Existence of Contents and the Doctrine of the Adequatio Rei et Intellectus  2. On the Meaning of "Veritas est Adequatio Rei et Intellectus."  3. On the Thesis: "Veritas est Adequatio Rei et Intellectus."  4. Reflections on the Theory of the Evident  5. The Evident  6. On the Evident

O autorze

Franz Brentano