The True and the Evident
Series: Routledge Revivals
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Hoboken
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource]
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780203858233
Description: First published in English in1966, The True and The Evident is a translation of Franz Brentano's posthumous Wahrheit und Evidenz, edited by Oscsar Kraus. The book includes Brentano's influential lecture "On the Concept of Truth", read before the Vienna Philosophical Society, a variety of essays, drawn from the immense wealth of Brentano's unpublished material, and letters written by him to Marty, Kraus Hillebrand, and Husserl. Brentano rejects the familiar versions of the "correspondence theory of truth" and proposes to define the true in terms of the evident. In criticisi.
Notes: Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Book cover; title01; copyright01; title02; copyright02; contents; preface to the english translation; foreword; introduction; part one: the earlier view; i on the concept of truth; ii being in the sense of the true; iii descartes' classification of mental phenomena; iv windelband's error with respect to the classification of mental phenomena; v critique of sigwart's theory of the existential and the negative judgement; vi on the evident; part two: transition to thelater view; i grammatical abstracta as linguistic fictions; ii the equivocal use of the term "existent"; iii language.; title: Part three: the later view as set forth in lettersi on the so-called "immanent or intentional object"; ii ens rationis and ens irreale; iii in opposition to the so-called contents of judgement, propositions, objectives, states of affairs; part four: the later view as set forth in essays; i on the existence of contents and the doctrine of the adaequatio rei et intellectus; ii on the meaning of "veritas est adaequatio rei et intellec.