C O N T E N T S

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    Title and Abstract                                  Pages i-ix
    Table of Contents                                   Pages i-vi


               PART ONE: SOME PRELIMINARIES

Chapter one: Introduction                                        1
           1.A. The problems                                     1
           1.B. Methodological remarks                           5
           1.C. The programme                                   13

       PART TWO: MEANING AND TRUTH

Chapter two: Propositions and meanings                          18
           2.A. Criteria of identity                            18
           2.B. General facts about language                    24
           2.C. Universals and strict criteria                  38
           2.D. The independence of universals                  50

Chapter three: Semantic rules                                   63
           Introduction                                         63
           3.A. F-words                                         64
           3.B. Logical syntheses                               70
           3.C. How properties explain                          83
           3.D. Non-logical syntheses                           93
           3.E. Concluding remarks and qualifications          102

Chapter four: Semantic rules and living languages              107
           4.A. Indefiniteness                                 107
           4.B. Ordinary language works                        117
           4.C. Purely verbal rules                            125

Chapter five: Logical form and logical truth                   129
           Introduction                                        129
           5.A. Logic and syntax                               130
           5.B. Logical techniques                             144
           5.C. Logical Truth                                  166
           5.D. Some generalisations                           176
           5.E. Conclusions and qualifications                 181

        PART THREE: MEANING AND NECESSARY TRUTH

Chapter six: Analytic propositions                             194
     6.A. Introduction                                         199
     6.B. Some unsatisfactory accounts of the distinction      217
     6.C. Identifying relations between meanings               229
     6.D. Indefiniteness of meaning                            236
     6.E. Knowledge of analytic truth                          249
     6.F. Concluding remarks

Chapter seven: Kinds of necessary truth                        260
     Introduction                                              260
     7.A. Possibility                                          261
     7.B. Necessity                                            272
     7.C. Synthetic necessary connections                      283
     7.D. Informal proofs                                      294
     7.E. Additional remarks                                   319

Chapter eight: Concluding summary                              329

APPENDICES                                                     335
 I. Singular referring expressions                             335
II. Confusions of formal logicians                             340
III. Implicit knowledge                                        357
IV. Philosophical analysis                                     372
 V. Further examples                                           381
VI. Apriori knowledge                                          386
Bibliography                                                   389

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