ABSTRACT
Judgment is sometimes distinguished as ‘taking something to be true’. While this gloss is suggestive, Brentano argued that truth is not one of the fundamental concepts in a theory of judgment. Judgments in the sense of datable mental events are correct or incorrect. Truth is a derived notion that applies to the contents of judgments: a content is true if, and only if, judging it is correct. In this paper I will explain Brentano’s ‘correctness first’ view and assess what it tells us about judgment as well as truth.
