Grazer Philosophische Studien

Volume 29, 1987

Intensional Logic and Brentano's Nonpropositional Theory of Judgement

The reism adopted by Brentano in the later stages of his philosophy led him to advocate a non-propositional theory of judgment. George Bealer, in his book Quality and Concept, charges that Brentano's theory, and indeed all non-propositional theories of judgment are not adequate to certain "intuitively valid" arguments in the realm of intensional logic. I show that Bealer is mistaken when he claims that Brentano's theory cannot offer an adequate rendering of the first two arguments, and I challenge the intuitive validity of the third. I conclude, therefore, that Bealer's arguments against Brentano do not succeed.