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TABLE OF CONTENTS

CHAPTER I. 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. § 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. § 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