TABLE OF CONTENTS
CHAPTER
I. Meaning page
§ 1. The three tasks of epistemology .... 3
§ 2. Language 16
§ 3. The three predicates of propositions 19
§ 4. The language of chess as an example, and the two
principles of the truth theory of meaning .... 28
§ 5. Extension of the physical theory of truth to observation propositions of ordinary language 33
§ 6. Extension of the truth theory of meaning to observation propositions of ordinary language 37
§ 7. The meaning of indirect propositions, and the two principles of the probability theory of meaning ... 46
§ 8. Discussion of the verifiability theory of meaning . 57
II. Impressions and the External World
§ 9. The problem of absolute verifiability of observation
propositions 83
§ 10. Impressions and the problem of existence .... 88
§ 11. The existence of abstracta 93
§ 12. The positivistic construction of the world .... 100
§ 13. Reduction and projection 105
§ 14. A cubical world as a model of inferences to unobservable things . 114
§ 15. Projection as the relation between physical things and
impressions 129
§ 16. An egocentric language 135
§ 17. Positivism and realism as a problem of language . 145
§ 18. The functional conception of meaning 156
III. An Inquiry concerning Impressions
§ 19. Do we observe impressions? .163
§ 20. The weight of impression propositions ... .169
§ 21. Further reduction of basic statements ... .179
§ 22. Weight as the sole predicate of propositions . .187
