Single Idea 23030

[catalogued under 3. Truth / D. Coherence Truth / 1. Coherence Truth]

Full Idea

When we speak of anything as true or false, we do so on the ground of its relation to a whole of organised knowledge existing actually in no human mind, but prefigured in every mind which is possessed of reason.

Gist of Idea

Truth is a relation to a whole of organised knowledge in the collection of rational minds

Source

report of T.H. Green (works [1875]) by John H. Muirhead - The Service of the State I n1

Book Reference

Muirhead,John H.: 'The Service of the State: T.H. Green' [John Murray 2021], p.13


A Reaction

This seems to be the super-idealist view of the coherence account of truth. I have no idea what 'prefigured' means here.