Franz Brentano_The True and the Evident.pdf
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<strong>The</strong> <strong>True</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>Evident</strong><br />
Unfortunately L<strong>and</strong> also overlooked this point.* But he is <strong>the</strong> only one of my critics who<br />
has understood what Windelb<strong>and</strong> has called my “mysterious” suggestions for reforming<br />
elementary logic; he has seen <strong>the</strong>ir necessary connection with <strong>the</strong> principle which I have<br />
used <strong>and</strong> he has been able to derive <strong>the</strong>m correctly from this principle. 38<br />
Let me call attention finally to a certain curiosity which Steinthal has recently provided<br />
for us, in his Zeitschrift für Völkerpsychologie (Vol. xviii, p. 175). Here I am amazed to read:<br />
“<strong>Brentano</strong> completely separates judgements from ideas <strong>and</strong> from thinking [!], <strong>and</strong> classifies<br />
judgements, as acts of acceptance or rejection, with love <strong>and</strong> hate [!!]—a confusion which<br />
is instantly dispelled, if one interprets any such judgement [?] as being simply a matter of<br />
taking an aes<strong>the</strong>tic [!] st<strong>and</strong> or position.” Probably Steinthal read only Windelb<strong>and</strong>’s review,<br />
<strong>and</strong> did not look at my Psychologie itself. But he read <strong>the</strong> review in such a cursory fashion<br />
that perhaps he will appreciate my forwarding his lines to Windelb<strong>and</strong> for correction.<br />
* See J.P.N.L<strong>and</strong>, “On a Supposed Improvement in Formal Logic”, Abh<strong>and</strong>hungen der königl.<br />
Niederländischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1876.