Bradley

réf. 74851 — C3a. Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Oxford University Press Oxford UK. 1968. Xix 570 pgs. 9th Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. Previous owner's name present to the FFEP. Endpapers are marked with crayon. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Appearance and Reality comprises two volumes: "Appearance" and "Reality". Bradley argues in the first that most things including objects and their qualities time and space causation the self and things-in-themselves are appearances while in the second he attempts to describe the reality these appearances misrepresent: the Absolute a single cosmic experience of which people are components. Ordinary concepts provide a pragmatically useful way of thinking about the world but being incoherent they cannot provide a satisfactory grasp of reality. Reality as predicate is a matter of degree: concepts are true or false of reality in different degrees. The concept of the Absolute is only a way of attempting to understand something that cannot be fully comprehended. Bradley tries to establish these conclusions by arguing that reality must have a unitary togetherness that cannot be captured by the ordinary conception of many distinct things in relation and that all concrete reality must somehow be psychical in nature.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . hardcover