0. Introduction
0.1 The linguistic and logical interests of contemporary philosophy
0.2 Natural and logistic languages
0.3 The concern of the present study
0.31 Speculative grammar
0.32 Logistic languages and ontology
0.4 Plan of the book
Appendix I / Brief historical survey of logistic philosophy
Appendix II / The different traditions of contemporary semiotics
Part One / The logistic analysis of language and the relation of representation
1. A philosophical revolution
1.1 The birth of contemporary analytic philosophy
1.2 Russell's analysis of relational facts
2. From the theory of knowledge to the logical analysis of language
2.1 The logicist definition of number
2.2 Logical constructions in place of epistemological inferences of existence
2.3 Philosophy as logical analysis of language
3. From the psychological concepts to the graphical sign
3.1 The elimination of psychologism and Frege's semantics
3.2 Russell's theory of description
3.3 Tarski's definition of the concept of truth
4. The relation of representation
4.1 The sharing of structure and form
4.2 the question of the content
Part Two / The relation of representation of predicate signs and contemporary view on universals
5. Bertrand Russell
5.1 Universals as logical atoms
5.2 Qualia as individuals
5.3 Antinomies in the theory of classes
5.4 The hierarchy of types
6. Ludwig Wittgenstein
6.1 The ideal language without predicate signs
6.2 The interpretation of predicate signs of non-ideal languages
6.3 Some consequences of Wittgenstein's conception
7. Rudolf Carnap
7.1 "Well-founded" relations
7.2 Synonimity
7.21 Kinds of a priori statements
7.22 Synonimity in logical syntax and semantics
7.3 Conventionalism and positivism
8. Stanslaw Lesniewski
8.1 The contradictory nature of so-called "general objects"
8.2 Mereology
8.3 Ontology
8.31 The distributive conception of totalities
8.32 Shared, unshared and fictitious names
8.33 Functors and existential import
8.34 Quantifiers without existential import
8.4 Lesniewski's nominalism
9. W.V. Quine and N. Goodman
9.1 Quine's criterion
9.11 To be is to be the value of a variable
9.12 Different kinds of variables
9.13 On the precise formulation of Quine's criterion
9.2 Ontologically different universes of discourse
9.21 Individuals and classes
9.22 Classes and intensions
9.3 A new way of judging ontological points of view
9.31 Intensionalism and extensionalism
9.32 Platonism and nominalism
9.321 Degrees of platonism
9.322 Systems and experience
9.323 Nominalistic reformulations
9.4 The syncategorematic functioning of predicate signs
9.41 Quine's view
9.42 Goodman's view
10. The Interpretations of predicate signs
10.1 Predicate signs as genuine names
10.2 Syncategorematic predicate signs
10.21 The equality interpretation
10.22 Equalities as foundation for abstraction
10.23 The similarity interpretation
10.3 The strictly reistic interpretation
11 Conclusion
11.1 The value of exact formulation
11.2 The intensional background of formal structures and the incompleteness of all formalization
11.3 Logical analysis and formal ontology
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