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Note on Errata............................................................................................... 16
Prefaces..................................................................................................... 17
Preface to 5th Edition, 1993............................................................................. 17
Preface to 4th Edition 1958.............................................................................. 27
Bibliographical Note 1958................................................................................ 33
Preface to 3rd Edition 1948.............................................................................. 35
Introduction to 2nd Edition 1941......................................................................... 40
A. Recent developments and the founding of the Institute of General Semantics........................ 40
B. Some difficulties to be surmounted................................................................ 42
1. The attitudes of 'philosophers', etc.......................................................... 42
2. Perplexities in theories of 'meaning'......................................................... 45
3. Inadequacy of forms of representation and their structural revision........................... 48
4. Identifications and mis-evalutations.......................................................... 49
5. Methods of the magician....................................................................... 51
C. Revolutions and evolutions........................................................................ 51
D. A non-aristotelian revision....................................................................... 55
E. New factors: the havoc they play with our generalizations......................................... 58
F. Non-aristotelian methods.......................................................................... 60
1. Neurological mechanisms of extensionalization................................................. 60
2. Neuro-semantic relaxation..................................................................... 62
3. Extensional devices and some applications..................................................... 63
4. Implications of the structure of language..................................................... 65
G. Over/Under defined terms.......................................................................... 67
H. The passing of the old aristotelian epoch......................................................... 72
1. 'Maginot like mentalities'.................................................................... 72
2. Wars of and on nerves......................................................................... 74
3. Hitler and psycho-logical factors in his life................................................. 76
4. Education for intelligence and democracy...................................................... 78
Conclusion........................................................................................... 83
Acknowledgements......................................................................................... 85
Supplementary Bibliography to 2nd Edition................................................................ 86
Preface to 1st Edition 1933.............................................................................. 91
Acknowledgement..........................................................................................103
Untitled.................................................................................................105