Knowledge and Reality
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ISBN13: 9780217229692
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. THE NATURE OF ASSERTION. I. The striking view which, in substantial agreement with Sigwart, Mr. Bradley propounds on the relation of modality to assertion, appears to me to admit and demand in two respects a different application from that which he gives it. Let us grant that a modal (i.e. possible or necessary) judgment is related to a simple assertion, as a hypothetical to a categorical judgment; that the possible and the necessary are signs of inference, and belong to the content of the judgment, while an assertion is simply bare affirmation as such, which formally claims that reality is qualified by the content of the judgment; we may still, I think, resist both the entire irrationality with which the view before us invests the act of affirmation,1 and the corollary which denies that apodeictic modality strengthens our assertions. 1 Cf. Principles of Logic, pp. 22 and 14. This content, we have seen, is the same both in the assertion and out of it. If you ask instead of judging, what is asked is precisely the same as what is judged. It is exceedingly hard to determine such a problem as this by pure introspection; the accompaniments of judgment are so easily confused withits essence. But, so far as I can see, the statement quoted does not represent my experience, nor can I understand it on theoretical grounds. I cannot but connect it with the habit of treating the sentence as the exact counterpart of the judgment (vide below, chap. iv.). I believe that it would be worth considering whether every idea that comes before the mind is not really in some modality, a 'modality varying with the attachments which its content furnishes to the world of our knowledge. I also entertain a doubt whether a question is a form of knowledge, an act of thought, at all, a...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217229692 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217229697 |
| Weight | 0.64 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.44 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 192 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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