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modern form, one might almost say that its prom 

 inent feature is its insistence upon reaching a 

 &quot; Reality &quot; that includes extra-intellectual fac 

 tors and phases, traits that are ideal in a moral 

 and emotional sense, by an exclusive recognition of 

 the function of knowledge in its isolation. 



Such being the case, an examination of Mr. 

 Bradley s method and criterion may have far- 

 reaching implications. First, let us set before 

 ourselves the general points of Mr. Bradley s in 

 dictment of intellectualism. 1 Knowledge or judg 

 ment works by means of thought ; it is predication 

 of idea (meaning) of existence as its subject. Its 

 final aim is to effect a complete union or harmony 

 of existence and meaning. But it is fore-doomed 

 to failure, for in realizing its end it must employ 

 means which contradict its own purpose. This 

 inherent incapacity lurks in judgment with respect 

 to subject, predicate, and copula. The predicate 

 or meaning necessary to complete the reality pre 

 sented in the subject can be referred to the latter 

 and united with it only by being itself alienated 

 from existence. It heals the wounds or deficiencies 

 of its own subject (and in the end all deficiencies 

 are to the modern idealist discrepancies) only on 

 condition of inflicting another wound, only by 

 sundering meaning from a prior union with exist- 



*I follow chiefly Chapter XV. of &quot;Appearance and 

 Reality &quot;the chapter on &quot; Thought and Reality.&quot; 



