| 5 | INTRODUCTION |
| Chapter I | |
| THE METHODOLOGICAL, HISTORICAL AND THEORETICAL PREMISSES OF THE ANALYSIS OF NATURAL LANGUAGE | |
| 12 | 1. The Methodology and Logic of Investigating Language |
| 26 | 2. Linguistics and the Formal Analysis of Language |
| 32 | Notes to Chapter I |
| Chapter II | |
| STATUS OF MEANING IN SEMANTIC CONCEPTIONS OF NATURAL LANGUAGE | |
| 34 | 1. The Interpretative Conception of Semantics or the ‘Algebra of Meaning’ |
| 45 | 2. Meaning and Truth: The Semantics of Possible Worlds and Natural Language |
| 62 | 3. Meaning as a Function in the Semantic Conceptions of Lewis, Montague, and Cresswell |
| 83 | 4. The Generative Conception of Semantics: ‘Natural Logic’ as a Theory of Human Argumentation |
| 87 | 5. Quine’s Semantic Conception: The Indeterminacy of Translation |
| 96 | 6. Meaning as Part of the Conceptual System |
| 117 | Notes to Chapter II |
| Chapter III | |
| THE PROBLEM OF THE REFERENCE OF OBJECTS | |
| 120 | 1. Names and Descriptions: the Logical Tradition and Natural Language |
| 133 | 2. The Semantics of Names: a Critique of the Classic Tradition of Analysis |
| 136 | 3. The Absolutising and De-absolutising of the ‘Semantics of Language’ in Kripke’s Causal Conception of Names |
| 149 | 4. Coreference: Entry into the Universe of Actual and Possible Objects |
| 153 | 5. Coreference and Hintikka’s Semantics of Possible Worlds |
| 164 | 6. The Semantics of Singular Terms and the Individual Conceptual System |
| 186 | Notes to Chapter III |
| Chapter IV | |
| THE MEANINGFULNESS OF LINGUISTIC EXPRESSIONS: THE PROBLEM OF CRITERIA | |
| 190 | 1. Linguistic and Logical Calculi: the Limits of Their Analogies |
| 194 | 2. The Meaningfulness and Semantics of Language |
| 198 | 3. Meaning Postulates and Pluralism of Logical Forms |
| 205 | 4. Meaningfulness as Interpretation in an Individual Conceptual System |
| 210 | Notes to Chapter IV |
| Chapter V | |
| CONCEPTUAL PICTURES OF THE WORLD: BELIEFS AND KNOWLEDGE | |
| 211 | 1. The Object of Belief and the Problems of Singling It Out |
| 214 | 2. Intensional Objects and Quantification |
| 218 | 3. Synonymity and Analyticity: Extrapolation of the Concept of Logical Form |
| 223 | 4. The Logical Form of Belief Sentences: Generative and Referential Analysis |
| 229 | 5. Belief Context and the Relativising of Intensional Concepts |
| 237 | 6. Belief and the Individual Conceptual System |
| 260 | Notes to Chapter V |
| 262 | CONCLUSION |
| SECOND THOUGHTS | |
| 266 | From Meaning to Value, or New Perspective of Analysis |
| 281 | Notes to ‘Second Thoughts’ |
| 282 | BIBLIOGRAPHY |
| 294 | NAME INDEX |
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