Brentano et la théorie réaliste de la vérité

The author deals with the Brentanian theory of truth, as it is sketched in On the concept of truth (1889). He shows how, although entrenched in a deep sense of “real”, this theory moves away from the traditionally to realism assigned “correspondence theory”. Following Brentano and carrying out a systematic comparison of his views to Austin’s ones, he investigates how far, in fact, a strict realism is incompatible with any kind of”correspondence theory”. On the other side, he tries to make some sense of the idea of a truth as “adequacy”.