Confessions of a confirmed extensionalist and other essays

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* Acknowledgments * Introduction I. Previously Unpublished Articles * Nominalism (1946) * On the Notion of an Analytic Statement (1946) * Lectures on David Hume's Philosophy (1946) * The Importance of Logic for Philosophy (1947) * Where is Logic Going? (1947) * Animadversions on the Notion of Meaning (1949) * The Entangled Philosophies of Mathematics (1950) * Meaning (1959) * The Way The World Is (1986) * Pressing Extensionality (1992) * Innate Foundational Endowments (1996) * The Growth of Mind and Language (1997) II. Previously Published Articles * Relations and Reason (1939) * On the Reasons for Indeterminacy of Translation (1970) * Methodological Reflections on Current Linguistic Theory (1970) * On Empirically Equivalent Systems of the World (1975) * Mind and Verbal Dispositions (1975) * The Nature of Natural Knowledge (1975) * Facts of the Matter (1977) * Cognitive Meaning (1979) * Grammar, Truth, and Logic (1980) * Ontology and Ideology Revisited (1983) * Relativism and Absolutism (1984) * States of Mind (1985) * The Sensory Support of Science (1986) * Panel on Reference (1986) * Indeterminacy of Translation Again (1987) * Mind, Brain, and Behavior (1989) * The Elusiveness of Reference (1990) * The Phoneme's Long Shadow (1990) * Three Indeterminacies (1990) * Preface to The Logic of Sequences (1990) * Two Dogmas in Retrospect (1991) * Structure and Nature (1992) * Commensurability and the Alien Mind (1992) * In Praise of Observation Sentences (1993) * Truth (1994) * Promoting Extensionality (1994) * Indeterminacy Without Tears (1994) * Assuming Objects (1994) * Naturalism Or, Living within One's Means (1995) * Progress on Two Fronts (1996) * The Flowering of Thought in Language (1997) * I, You, and It: an Epistemological Triangle (1999) * Three Networks: Similarity, Implication, and Membership (2000) * Confessions of a Confirmed Extensionalist (2001) * Credits * Index