ABSTRACT
Besides, both he and Bradley admit that negation is more reflective than affirmation. Bradley says: "But denial can be called more 'reflective* in the sense that we become aware of it later."1 "You may, when it is compared with affirmation, call it if you please more 'reflective' in the sense that we perhaps generally know that we assert before we know that we deny."2 Bosanquet, too, writes: "Further, however, it is also true that in the beginnings of knowledge negation is a degree more remote than affirmation; and this character of ideality clings to the negative form through its whole development, though without debarring it from the acquisition of objective value."3
