TABLE OF CONTENTS
         Preface ..................................................................vii
         INTRODUCTION
         Chapter I: KNOWLEDGE, ACTION, AND EVALUATION
         1. To know is to apprehend the future as qualified by values
         which action may realize ____._______.__.__________._____.......__.________.__. 3
         2. The meaning of 'action' ....______.__________....__.._______...__..__.....__....... 5
         3. The meaning of 'knowledge' ____...____.______...______..____....__.__........ 9
         4. Knowledge and meaning ______.__.....__________.........__._____.________.___.... 11
         5. Only an active being could have knowledge ........______..........__ 16
         6. Empirical knowledge predicts experience as consequence
         of action ..... _.... ... . ..... ..... _ ..... _ ...... ... . ............ .... .. _. .. _ ... _. 21
         Chapter II: KNOWLEDGE, EXPERIENCE, AND MEANING
         1. The two types of knowledge ________._________________________________ .____.... 24
         2. Usual requirements of knowledge ....__..____..___..______.__.......__..... 27
         3. Three types of apprehension __...____...._________......_..____________...__.. 29
         BOOK I
         MEANING AND ANALYTIC TRUTH
         Chapter III: THE MODES OF l1EANING
         1. The a priori and the analytic .....__................__.........__..__..__...... 35
         2. Summary of theses in Book I __...........................__.........__.__... 36
         3. The four modes of the meaning of terms ....__............__......__ 38
         4. The meaning of propositions and statements .......__...__.....__. 48
         5. Modes of propositional meaning ___._________._______.________ 55
         6. Propositional functions and statement functions ___.____________ 58
         7. Intensional meaning and extensional meaning ______________...__. 65
         Chapter IV: MEANING AND LANGUAGE
         1. Broader aspects of meaning ___..__..__..__..____.....__..__.__.________________ 71
         2. Symbols and expressions __.... __.__._________.__. 73
         3. Elementary and conlplex expressions ..___________...._____..__ 78
         4. All words have meaning ....--..__-_..___________________..__ 79
         5. Analytic meaning .._ .--....-..________.__.._ ______ -- .__.___. 83
         6. Synonymous expressions ________...___..__...... 85
         7. Holophrastic meaning and analytic meaning ____._______._____.. 87
         8. Implicitly analytic and explicitly analytic statements ..____.__. 89
         9. Analytic statements impose no restrictions on the actual _.. 93
         Chapter V: DEFINITIONS, FORMAL STATEMENTS, AND LOGIC
         1. The conventionalist view _______.______________________... 96
         2. Types of definitive statenlent ____..___...._____.______.__...______ 97
         3. Symbolic conventions, dictionary definitions, and explicative statements _ _ _ _ - - _ _ _ _ _ _ 99
         4. Quoted constituents in expressions ______________101
         5. Figurative expressions and literal equivalents ____ _________102
         6. The three senses of 'definition' ______..____________.___105
         7. Equivalence by convention and equivalence of meaning ____107
         8. Definitions and formal rules  _.....__..__________....____..______..111
         9 . Formal statements .....______.____..__.._.. ...... .....__...113
         10. Formal statements and logic .....__......___.........__..........115
         11. A simple example  __._.._..........................._............116
         12. A second example  ..............................__...._.........119
         13. All truths of logic are analytic formal statements ..............122
         14. Not all analytic statements belong to logic ......................_.....124
         Chapter VI: LINGUISTIC MEANING AND SENSE MEANING
         1. Two aspects of intensional meaning ...............__........... .........131
         2. Requirements of sense meaning .....................__............. ..........134
         3. Sense meaning as criterion of application ...................._.._......136
         4. Meaning as linguistically determined ..........._..........__.........__.138
         5. Linguistic meaning and the analytic ..._...........___..._............____140
         6. Linguistic meaning and communication_____..__________.____.._.......143
         7. The priority of sense meaning ........___........_.._____....____.__..._.._...14S
         8. Linguistic conventions .___..________........____...149
         9. Sense meaning and the analytic __...._____.____..__..__.._...____..151
         10. Analytic truth as relations of criteria _______.......__..__....._ .____..152
         11. Entailment and incompatibility amongst sense-recognizable
         characters  _____ _.. _. _.. ._____. _ .____ __._ ____ __ _.____ ___ __ _ ____.___ _____.154
         12. Three factors in determining analytic truth ._..___....___.....155
         13. The question of the synthetic a priori _____..........._..___....._158
         14. The analytic and the formally derivable ........_.______.....163
         BOOK II
         EMPIRICAL KNOWLEDGE
         Chapter VII: THE BASES OF EMPIRICAL KNOWLEDGE
         1. Enlpirical truth can be known only through presentations
         of sense  ._... __ _. __ _. _. _.171
         2. Knowledge by direct perception .____.........._______. ..____....172
         3. The implications of an objective empirical belief........_.......175
         4. Expressive language  _.__________.__...._...___.--.....___....._____..178
         s. Three classes of empirical statements ____...._..___.. ..........__...._.182
         6. Presentational certainties and objective probabilities ._.......185
         7. The given and its interpretation ____....__..__.......___.._...__.._........_188
         8. Confirmations of non-terminating judgments __....__....___...l90
         9. The operational conception of meaning _______.__..________....__..._.195
         10. Knowledge of the past __..__..___.._________u______ ......_..197
         11. Pragmatism and ubjectivism _..______..__....______....__....__200
         Chapter VIII: TERMINATING JUDGMENTS AND OBJECTIVE BELIEFS
         1. The general character of terminating judgments ......_.....___,,203
         2. Terminating judgments are hypothetical  __. ..--..___ __.... ___-.... _.205
         3. Terminating judgments and alternatives of action....__....__..207
         4. The 'if-then' relation in terminating judgments _______......._.211
         5. This relation is not that of strict inlplication ____.._......_...____.212
         6. This relation is not that of material implication .._...__________213
         7. This relation is not that of formal implication __________________217
         8. The implicit generality of terminating judgments ____________219
         9. Terminating judgments and contrary-to-fact hypotheses ____220
         10. Terminatingudgnlents and the independence of the real .......223
         11. Terminating judgments and 'real connections' ___________.........226
         12. Further problems _ _ .. _ _ .. _ _ _ _ .. .. _ .. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ . _ _ _ _ _ 230
         13. Objective beliefs are not decisively falsifiable _________________.233
         14. Confirmation and disconfirmatin of objective beliefs _______235
         15. Supposed further conditions of the test of truth ________________242
         16. Objective beliefs are probable only _____246
         17. Summary with respect to critical points  _________.______247
         Chapter IX: THE JUSTIFICATION OF EMPIRICAL BELIEFS
         1. Verification and justification _____._ ______ ___________ ___ _254
         2 . Justification and foresight __..______ __ __ __ __ ___256
         3 . Credibility and truth __ ___ __ ____ __ __ __ ____ ____ __ __ __ __ _257
         4. Empirical knowledge is unverified ___________________258
         5. Past experience and validity ____._ _______________._259
         6. The complexity of empirical knowledge _________________.261
         7. Inference from particulars to particulars ____......._______...262
         8. Two further considerations _____._ .____ ...___._________263
         Chapter X: PROBABILITY
         1. Probability and induction __ ________ ___________265
         2. Theories of the a priori type _______.. ______. __ _ ____ __266
         3. Theories of the empirical type ________________________269
         4. Fundamental requirements of an empirical theory ___________276
         5. Basic differences of the two types of theory _______________279
         6. Difficulties of the empirical type of theory ____....____..282
         7. A probability is a valid estimate of a frequency __.._________..__290
         8. Reliability of a probability determination ______________.292
         9. Three factors of reliability ____________________________298
         10. Summary statement _______..__.. __303
         11. The Principle of Indifference _______________._____.._____306
         Chapter XI: PROBABLE KNOWLEDGE, AND THE VALIDITY OF
         MEMORY
         1. Justified belief is belief which is probable __.....__....___...........315
         2. Empirical knowledge as belief in what is probable ______ ________.316
         3. Can such belief have grounds which are sufficient?  ..__........325
         4. The problem of the validation of memory ...__.__................__..327
         5. The epistemological present .....__........... ....___... __.__ ................__.328
         6. The threatened regressus of beliefs ...._.______......__.....__......__.....332
         7. Coherence and congruence __.... ....__...... ________ ......__338
         8. Congruence and the logic of induction ________ ___....343
         9. Congruence by itself is not sufficient to validate belief____..349
         10. Congruence and memory __.__..__.. -________.__ ..-___....353
         11. 'Deductiqn' of the basic validity of memory and of in duction .. _ _ _ _ . _ _ _ _ _ _ . .. _ 356
         BOOK III
         VALUATION
         Chapter XII: KNOWING, DOING, AND VALUING
         1. Valuations are a forn of ernpirical knowledge ______.. ___......365
         2. Action and valuation _..____.. ____________.__ _ ____366
         3. Practical justification of action _______.. _.._..__ __370
         4. The cognitive content of valuations ___.....__.____.. .____..371
         5. Types of value-apprehension ____ _____..__ _ __._____373
         6. A priori value-predications are not valuations _.__....__....__......378
         7. Objective value and immediate value ___________.._____________380
         8. Intrinsic value, instrumental value, and utility __.__..382
         9. Values in objects are extrinsic __.______ _________388
         10. Inherent values __._ ___. _____ __ __ __.. _____ __ .390
         11. Summary as to terminology ______.___--_____.__________--...._392
         12. Further explanatory remarks ________ ____ _ _._______ _____393
         Chapter XIII: THE IMMEDIATELY VALUABLE
         1. Values immediately realized are intrinsic _______________397
         2. Naturalism in value-theory ______ ____________ _______398
         3. The problem of characterizing the immediately valuable  ....400
         4. Value-disvalue as a mode of presentation ...........................401
         5. 'Pleasure' a poor name for the immediately valuable ..........403
         6. Is value in direct experience subjective? .....__.__.__..____........__406
         7. Imnlediate value as a quality of appearance ........__........406
         8. All value in objects is extrinsic __............................._.....__......411
         9. Value in objects is potentiality for some realization of value in immediate experlence ...........__......413
         10. Subjectivity of value as relativity to what is personal ...........414
         11. Are value-qualities more subjective than sense qualities? _.._418
         12. Subjective value-apprehension and error in value-judgment . _ 419
         13. Immediate value as attaching to presentation ..._.__....._424
         14. Immediate value as affected by the context of the presentation ...................._......_....................._....................___-__..__......425
         15. An example .....__.__..._..._.._...___.._..___. ...._....427
         Chapter XIV: INHERENT VALUE AND THE ESTHETIC
         1. Intrinsic value and inherent value ..._..............._.........._...........432
         2. Esthetic values are a subclass of inherent values ___.....__....434
         3. The active, the cognitive, and the esthetic attitudes............437
         4. The broad meaning of 'esthetic' .................................... ._........444
         5. The narrower meaning of 'esthetic' ...._.................................446
         6. Interests subsidiary to the esthetic ____....____...______..______450
         7. Esthetic values and values found in activity ________________453
         Chapter XV: ESTHETIC JUDGMENT
         1. Esthetic judgment concerns a property of objects .....___..457
         2. Comparative evaluations of the esthetic in experience ........462
         3. The esthetic character of experience may be judged ..._.__...__464
         4. Esthetics and esthetic theory __...__. ___........... ................ ..466
         5. Types of esthetic objects ........_.._ ___ ..............__.... __ ._....469
         6. The esthetic actuality and its context __.._.._____........__............472
         7. The variety of things esthetically valued _............._................476
         Chapter XVI: THE MORAL SENSE AND CONTRIBUTORY VALUES
         1. Vatue-effects of one experience upon another ....................479
         2. The imperative of rationality and the good life ............__......480
         3. Values contributory to the good life ........__.....__.................486
         4. Critique of the Benthamite calculus of values __..__....__..---...488
         5. Value in experiential wholes _____________............495
         6. The consummatory character of value in an active life__....497
         7. An implication for our relation to others __......__........__..........500
         8. A life to be found good in the living of it ................ ...........503
         9. Synthetic apprehension of value in experiential wholes ......505
         10. Difficulties of such appraisals of value ......__........._................507
         11. Practical simplifications of the problem ____.......__..____............509
         Chapter XVII: VALUE IN OBJECTS
         1. Various modes of predicating value to objects ..........__....511
         2. Value as simple potentiality __.__..................._................. ..........512
         3. Value as relative to actual conditions ..........__..................516
         4. Value relative to persons _________________.__.____..__521
         5. Absolute value and comparative value ....................__.........524
         6. Relative value and ethics ..............__..__............__.............529
         7. Value as relative to humans in general __.....____....___.........__.531
         8. Bare utility and instrumental value .............................533
         9. Value-significance of names .......................................... .........534
         10. Values as relative to control __.........__....__..__.......................537
         11. Distinctive modes of evaluation ..........__......__.................539
         12. Social value .......... ......... .... ....... ........... ... .......... ........541
         13. The assessment of social values __..........__....__......... .........543
         14. Social values and ethics ..............__.......__...................551
         INDEX .................................................................................557
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