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    BRADLEY, FRANCIS HERBERT(1846-1924) The English idealist philosopher Francis Herbert Bradley was born in Clapham and educated at University College, Oxford; in 1870 he was elected to a fellowship at Merton College, Oxford, terminable on marriage. Since he never married and the terms of the fellowship did not require him to teach, he was able to devote himself entirely to philosophical writing.
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    The English philosopher Francis Herbert Bradley (1846-1924) based his thought on the principles of absolute idealism. He rigorously criticized all philosophies based on the "school of experience." ... Knowledge and Experience in the Philosophy of F. H. Bradley (1964). For Bradley's place in the history of idealism, good sources are John H ...
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    COHERENCE THEORY OF TRUTH. The coherence theory is one of the two traditional theories of truth, the other being the correspondence theory. The coherence theory is characteristic of the great rationalist system-building metaphysicians Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Benedict (Baruch) de Spinoza, G. W. F. Hegel, and Francis Herbert Bradley; but it has also had a vogue with several members of the ...
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    Perhaps Herbert spencer ... social philosophers' views on society also bifurcated. Early Modern Views of Society. ... idea or ethical spirit," "the true meaning and ground" of lower forms of social organization like the family and civil society (Philosophy of Right, Secs. 257, 256). By contrast, not only do liberals insist on the subordination ...
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    Although its origins can be traced to idealists, including Francis Bradley, Bernard Bosanquet, and Brand Blanshard, the coherence theory has more recently been espoused by empiricist-minded contemporary philosophers such as Wilfrid Sellars, Nicholas Rescher, Keith Lehrer, Gilbert Harman, and Laurence Bonjour. The coherence theory of ...
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    Pringle-Pattison was a Scottish Hegelian with a difference. Rebelling against the absolutism of Hegel and of such Hegelians as Francis Herbert Bradley and Bernard Bosanquet, for whom the individual is merged in the universal, he insisted on the uniqueness of the individual person. It is only as knower that the self is a unifying principle.
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    Eliot's Harvard doctoral dissertation, completed at Oxford in 1915, was published as Knowledge and Experience in the Philosophy of F. H. Bradley (London and New York, 1964). Francis Herbert Bradley's idealism influenced Eliot's critical doctrines, and in 1926 Eliot published an essay on Bradley, reprinted in Selected Essays (London, 1951). In ...
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    Francis Herbert Bradley. Metaphysician and philosopher F. H. Bradley (1846-1924) is most noted for his Appearance and Reality (1893), which was considered an important philosophical discussion of contemporary metaphysical thought at the time of its publication. He was also known by the influence his writing had on author T. S. Eliot.
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    An English philosopher about whom Eliot wrote his doctoral thesis, Bradley (1846-1924) was interested in ethics, logic, and metaphysics (a branch of philosophy that deals with the origins of the universe). In section VII, Eliot discusses Bradley's moral philosophy, its connection with religion, and its superiority to the philosophy of Matthew ...
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    MODERN LOGIC: THE BOOLEAN PERIOD: THE HERITAGE OF KANT AND MILL The development of logic, at least of formal logic, in the nineteenth century was largely independent of the general development of philosophy during the same period. Of the logicians considered in the preceding section only C. S. Source for information on Modern Logic: The Boolean Period: The Heritage of Kant and Mill ...

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