Brentano's theory of truth

Authors

  • Hynek Janoušek

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26806/fd.v4i1.74

Keywords:

Brentano, fenomenologie, teorie pravdy, pravda, soud

Abstract

The article describes the development of Brentano's conception of truth as well as the ontology which is closely connected to different attempts of Brentano's definition of truth. First of all comes Brentano's early view of truth as a correspondence between judgment and object into consideration. This conception brought Brentano face to face with peculiar kinds of entities which are to vouch for truth of judgments concerning non-existent objects, privations etc. Brentano was eventually forced to leave his original definition behind and substitute it with a new definition of truth as evidence. He also embraced a reductive stand towards supposedly unreal entities which are to be interpreted as fictions caused by insufficient analysis of semantic structures of judgments. The study ends with a presentation and critique of brentanian analysis of semantics of judgments concerning unreal objects.

Author Biography

Hynek Janoušek

ÚFaR FF UK

Published

2012-06-29

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Section

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