This major contribution to the study of F.H. Bradley, the most influential member of the nineteenth century school of British Idealist philosophers, offers a sustained interpretation of his Principles of Logic. After explaining how it is possible for inferences to be valid and yet have conclusions
The Logical Foundations of Bradley's Metaphysics: Judgment, Inference, and Truth
β Scribed by James Allard
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Year
- 2004
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 263
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Synopsis
This book is a major contribution to the study of the philosopher F. H. Bradley, the most influential member of the nineteenth-century school of British Idealists. It offers a sustained interpretation of Bradley's Principles of Logic, explaining the problem of how it is possible for inferences to be both valid and yet have conclusions that contain new information. The author then describes how this solution provides a basis for Bradley's metaphysical view that reality is one interconnected experience and how this gives rise to a new problem of truth.
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