According to Hägerström, determinateness, or coherence, encompasses reality.377 Reality is a concept that can neither be determined as a certain reality, nor be determined through anything else, and consequently reality is not accessible through the analysis of particular things other than reality itself. Reality is determinateness itself.This means that it is impossible to imagine anything as real unless this object is determined in a certain way.378 Only that which can be set in time and space is real, which does not imply that reality is the spatio-temporal context itself, as such a supposition entails that reality itself is defined as something specific being real, a specific reality, which in turn itself presupposes reality,379 thus making everything else relatively real in comparison to the said object, for example physical reality (the spatio-temporal context) or God. The nature of knowledge in combination with the laws of thought implies that there must also exist a definite relationship between knowledge and its object, reality - a relationship that must be possible to imagine without resorting to the use of explicit or tacit contradictions regarding the logical characteristics of, as well as the logical relationships between, the material world and the mind.380 Throughout the history of philosophy, the most widely accepted theory of truth has been the correspondence theory of truth.381 True or proper knowledge can be obtained if one postulates that reality in itself has only one property, self-identity or deterp a r t i 1 , c h a p t e r 7 162 7. 2 real i ty, se lf- ident i ty, dete rminatene s s , and knowledge 377 Hägerström, Selbstdarstellungen, p. 18. 378 Fries, “Grunddragen i Axel Hägerströms filosofi,” p. 16. 379 Ibid. 380 Cf. Hägerström, Selbstdarstellungen, pp. 5-6. 381 A Companion to Epistemology, Dancy and Sosa, eds., Truth. 7. 3 moni sm in ontology and e p i stemology: the corre spondence theory of truth
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