Ann Arbor, Mich.: University Microfilms International. Thesis (Ph.D.)-The Ohio State University, 1996.Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 57-02, Section: A, page: 0718.I argue that most recent commentators on Bradley overlook the importance of understanding his philosophy as a system constructed according to the doctrine of relative truth. The pragmatic theory of truth is akin to a coherence theory of this Kantian kind. Different versions of the theory give different accounts of coherence, but in all its forms the point is to exhibit truth as an internal relation between beliefs. I also contrast Bradley's positions on important issues with those of philosophers in the Anglo-American analytic tradition, such as Russell, Moore, Ayer, Tarski, Quine, Churchland, Lehrer and Campbell. The coherence theory of truth equates the truth of a judgment with its coherence with other beliefs. I believe one of Bradley's central concerns is to explain the nature and criterion of truth in philosophy within the constraints of empiricism. I explain Bradley's place in the history of philosophy and show his connections with the British empiricist tradition. The truth in philosophy is a position which accounts for the whole of reality and includes all apparently inconsistent positions within it. The competing theories give conflicting accounts of the relation between. The coherence theory differs from its principal competitor, the correspondence theory of truth, in two essential respects. All philosophical positions contain some truth, and none is completely false. A coherence theory of truth states that the truth of any (true) proposition consists in its coherence with some specified set of propositions. In the process of translation, the translator should follow three principles, namely, skopos rule, coherence rule and fidelity rule. The core concept of Skopos Theory is that translation strategies and methods are determined by the purpose of translation. Further, he insists that truth is not absolute but "relative," a matter of degree. Skopos Theory is the theory that applies the Skopos concept to translation. Bradley has a different approach to negation and inconsistency, according to which there are no absolutely inconsistent beliefs. For Bradley, some positions are truer than others, and the best philosophy is a comprehensive system which contains the truth of all different positions.īradley does not accept the coherence theory of justification as it is understood today, since it is based on the standard account of negation and the doctrine of absolute truth. Concerning the criterion of truth, I argue that his criterion for our ordinary and scientific beliefs is practice, and the criterion for philosophical positions is a kind of coherence based on the doctrine of relative truth. Thought is not just a mirror which reflects an independently existing reality. Bradley therefore rejects both the correspondence theory and epistemological realism. There is no absolute separation between thought and its object. I argue that, for Bradley, the nature of truth is the identity of thought with reality given in immediate experience. Bradley's philosophy in so far as it is relevant to an understanding of his conception of the nature and criterion of truth. The aim of this dissertation is to present a systematic account of F.
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