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Confessions of a Confirmed Extensionalist and Other Essays

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Publication Date: 11/30/2008

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  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • I. Previously Unpublished Articles
    • 1. Nominalism (1946)
    • 2. On the Notion of an Analytic Statement (1946)
    • 3. Lectures on David Hume’s Philosophy (1946)
    • 4. The Importance of Logic for Philosophy (1947)
    • 5. Where Logic Is Going (1947)
    • 6. Animadversions on the Notion of Meaning (1949)
    • 7. The Entangled Philosophies of Mathematics (1950)
    • 8. Meaning (1959)
    • 9. The Way the World Is (1986)
    • 10. Pressing Extensionality (1992)
    • 11. The Innate Foundational Endowments (1996)
    • 12. The Growth of Mind and Language (1997)
  • II. Previously Published Articles
    • 13. Relations and Reason (1939)
    • 14. On the Reasons for Indeterminacy of Translation (1970)
    • 15. Methodological Reflections on Current Linguistic Theory (1970)
    • 16. On Empirically Equivalent Systems of the World (1975)
    • 17. Mind and Verbal Dispositions (1975)
    • 18. The Nature of Natural Knowledge (1975)
    • 19. Facts of the Matter (1977)
    • 20. Cognitive Meaning (1979)
    • 21. Grammar, Truth, and Logic (1980)
    • 22. Ontology and Ideology Revisited (1983)
    • 23. Relativism and Absolutism (1984)
    • 24. States of Mind (1985)
    • 25. The Sensory Support of Science (1986)
    • 26. Panel on Reference (1986)
    • 27. Indeterminacy of Translation Again (1987)
    • 28. Mind, Brain, and Behavior (1989)
    • 29. The Elusiveness of Reference (1990)
    • 30. The Phoneme’s Long Shadow (1990)
    • 31. Three Indeterminacies (1990)
    • 32. Preface to The Logic of Sequences (1990)
    • 33. Two Dogmas in Retrospect (1991)
    • 34. Structure and Nature (1992)
    • 35. Commensurability and the Alien Mind (1992)
    • 36. In Praise of Observation Sentences (1993)
    • 37. Truth (1994)
    • 38. Promoting Extensionality (1994)
    • 39. Indeterminacy without Tears (1994)
    • 40. Assuming Objects (1994)
    • 41. Naturalism; Or, Living within One’s Means (1995)
    • 42. Progress on Two Fronts (1996)
    • 43. The Flowering of Thought in Language (1997)
    • 44. I, You, and It: An Epistemological Triangle (1999)
    • 45. Three Networks: Similarity, Implication, and Membership (2000)
    • 46. Confessions of a Confirmed Extensionalist (2001)
  • Credits
  • Index

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