ABSTRACT
Hegel, as we shall see, revises this picture quite radically, but his scepticism about finite cognition is expressed in terms of doubts about the appropriateness of each of these three elements to infinite entities. Underlying all his particular objections, however, there is a general belief that finite concepts or categories are suitable only for finite entities, whereas infinite objects require infinite thoughts. One of the routes by which he reaches this position is his criticism of predication or the propositional form as such. One of them occurs in the course of his discussion of truth. It might seem odd, Hegel concludes, to inquire about the truth of thought-determinations. On the ordinary view, the question of truth does not arise until concepts are applied to 'given objects', for truth is regarded as the 'agreement of an object with our conception'.
