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338 THE PROBLEMS WHICH WE HAVE RAISED.
"
reference to is easiest to trace in
Reality" Judgments
referring directly to something in the world of Mind or
Matter.
Mr Bradley has expressed our result thus : Judgment
proper is the act which refers an ideal content, 1 rec
ognised as such, to a Reality beyond the act. Judg
ment is spoken of as
is a thought of the mind, and hence may be called a
"
mental act." In judging, we use
recognised
"
as such
"
the because act," every judgment
"
an ideal content,
i.e., a universal meaning, a concept
(ch. II.
6), which, until it is asserted, is only a recog
nised meaning, a
And we refer
"
wandering adjective."
the adjective to "a Reality beyond the act," an ob
jective Reality which does not depend on any thoughts
about it. In every judgment I assert a meaning, and
assert that meaning of Reality. Mr Bradley applies
this principle throughout to all kinds of judgment ;
hence he comes to take both the subject and predicate
of the proposition adjectivally. The whole proposition
expresses but one idea, and I attach this idea to the
nature of the real. Thus, take the following proposi
tions : "Sir Christopher Wren was the
"
"
St Paul s Cathedral It is
; proposed to
architect of
hold an Ex
hibition at Glasgow in 1901";
"The planets move
"
"
round the sun in ellipses Ozone is
;
produced by the
passage of electric sparks through the air." The subject
in each of these is Reality, and the respective predicates
(referred to "
Reality)
are : The designing of St Paul s
"
"
Sir C. Wren The ; proposal (of
certain
Cathedral by
persons) to hold an Exhibition in Glasgow in 1901";
"The elliptic paths of the planets round the sun";
1 The "ideal content" is not a
phrase happy one. It simply
means "conceptual content," and has nothing to do with the
"ideal" or perfect.