Abstract

Hall's final statement of his "intentionalistic empiricism" in epistemology and ethics. He takes emotional experience to be basic; perceptions are only an abstracted portion of this experience. Truth as a property of empirical propositions, and legitimacy as a property of value propositions, are interpreted as unanalyzable relations between propositions and facts or values. The test of truth and legitimacy is coherence. The examples of emotionally expressive language found throughout the second half of this work show sensitivity to the variety in such a language.--E. R. G.