Philosophy

Table of Contents - October 1985 - Volume 60, Issue 234  

Articles

Negation: Bradley and Wittgenstein

Guy Stocka1

a1 University of Aberdeen

There are two main claims that Bradley makes concerning negative judgment in the Principles of Logic:

(i) Negative judgment ‘stands at a different level of reflection’ from affirmative judgment.

(ii) Negative judgment ‘presupposes a positive ground’.

I will consider what Bradley means by these claims, and draw comparisons with Wittgenstein's views on negation as they developed between the Tractatus and the Philosophical Remarks.