Abstract
David Lewis' refers to the struggles of the 'puncture and patch' industry that has grown up around the verification principle since A. J. Ayer's flawed attempts at its formulation in the first and second editions of Language, Truth and Logic2. In my 'Scientific Realism, Observation and the Verification Principle'3 I ventured yet another attempt at a coherent formulation, in the spirit of the original, and this too-one can hardly be surprised-has suffered a puncture, at Lewis's hands. The purposes of this note are, first, to effect yet another repair; and, second, to explain why someone totally out of sympathy with the original Verificationists' project-the construction of an empiricist criterion of meaningfulness-might nevertheless have an interest in the success of the attempt.
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