Harold Joachim (1868-1938) was one of the last of the British Idealists: he was not yet 40 when he published this paper and, a year later, his book The Nature of Truth (which is included in the text browser on the Moodle site). Perhaps because he was younger, he was readier than the better-known members of his school to address the question of the day. (Others eventually did. F. H. Bradley, 1846-1924, who was the most important of the British Idealists, published in 1914 a collection, Essays on Truth and Reality, composed of papers he’d written over the preceding few years, and much of it is devoted to discussions of pragmatism and Russell.)

Joachim’s own theory of truth is discussed in most detail in his §4. After introductory sections in which he presents the view he opposes (§1) and suggests the grounds on which he is opposed (§2), the bulk of the paper is organized as a discussion of three examples he discribes at the end of §1. He presents his theory of truth in the midst of discussing the first of these examples in §§3-5. The other two examples are discussed in the final two sections of the paper.

Joachim’s book is organized in much that same way as this paper. The topics of §§3-6 and §7 appear there, respectively, as the last two chapters (each about a third of the whole book). The earlier part of the book corresponds roughly to §§1-2 here (except that the second chapter of the book is devoted explicitly to a discussion of Russell’s views at the time).