Note 112 — Chapter III · SOME FUNDAMENTAL CHARACTERISTICS

This is, of course, a very old difficulty, involved in the problem of the supposed pre-knowledge of God. Bradley deals with it in the Mind (July 1911) article upon “Some Aspects of Truth.” His solution (as Professor Dawes Hicks notices in the Hibbert Journal, January 1912) is the familiar Neo-Hegelian finding, that as a “particular judgment” with a “unique context” my truth is “new,” but “as an element in an eternal reality” it was “waiting for me.” Readers of Green’s Prolegomena are quite ready for this finding. Pragmatists, of course, while insisting on the man-made character of truth, have not as yet come in sight of the difficulties of the divine foreknowledge—in relation to the free purposes and the free discoveries of mortals.