Judgment, truth and reality in F. H. Bradley

What does the truth of a judgment consist of, according to F. H. Bradley? What is its ultimate nature? In particular, how does such a property relate to reality? At least three interpretive theses have been offered: (i) that Bradley defended a theory of truth as coherence; (ii) that, rather, Bradley...

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Author: Domínguez, Sebastián Briceño
Format: article
Status:Published version
Publication Date:2023
Country:Brasil
Institution:Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP)
Repository:Trans/Form/Ação (Online)
Language:Spanish
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.www2.marilia.unesp.br:article/15708
Online Access:https://revistas.marilia.unesp.br/index.php/transformacao/article/view/15708
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Juicio
Realidad
Verdad
Bradley
Judgment
Reality
True
Julgamento
Realidade
Verdade
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Summary:What does the truth of a judgment consist of, according to F. H. Bradley? What is its ultimate nature? In particular, how does such a property relate to reality? At least three interpretive theses have been offered: (i) that Bradley defended a theory of truth as coherence; (ii) that, rather, Bradley defended a robust variant of the identity theory of truth; and (iii) that, in any case, Bradley rejected the correspondence theory of truth. In this article I question these three theses and argue that the position defended by Bradley is perfectly compatible with a weak variant of the correspondence theory of truth. This, by the way, makes his position vulnerable to certain objections. Bradley's merit consists not so much in having answered them satisfactorily as in having anticipated them and assumed them as eventual consequences of his position.