ABSTRACT
Truth examines the apprehension of something that coheres with the whole of reality as a systematic order or Cosmos. It has usually to be content with something that falls short of reality, something that only corresponds to what can be somehow apprehended, or that proves serviceable as a working hypothesis. This has been strikingly brought out by F. H. Bradley in his great work on Appearance and Reality, in which he even urges that Reality lives in its Appearances. It seems clear that we attach a certain value to the apprehension of reality, certainly an instrumental value and probably even an intrinsic one; and it is mainly from that point of view that we have to consider the subject. Modern realism, it is important to remember, cannot properly be called materialism. It is rather energism; and this conception can be, to some extent at least, applied to mental processes as well as to those that are more purely physical.
