AN INQUIRY INTO MEANING AND TRUTH

THE WILLIAM JAMES LECTURES
FOR 1940
DELIVERED AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY

BY

BERTRAND RUSSELL

Allen & Unwin, 1940

CONTENTS

Preface
Introduction
  1. What is a Word?
  2. Sentences, Syntax, and Parts of Speech
  3. Sentences Describing Experiences
  4. The Object-Language
  5. Logical Words
  6. Proper Names
  7. Egocentric Particulars
  8. Perception and Knowledge
  9. Epistemological Premisses
  10. Basic Propositions
  11. Factual Premisses
  12. An Analysis of Problems Concerning Propositions
  13. The Significance of Sentences: A. General -- B. Psychological -- C. Syntactical
  14. Language as Expression
  15. What Sentences 'Indicate'
  16. Truth and Falsehood: Preliminary Discussion
  17. Truth and Experience
  18. General Beliefs
  19. Extensionality and Atomicity
  20. The Law of Excluded Middle
  21. Truth and Verification
  22. Significance and Verification
  23. Warranted Assertibility
  24. Analysis
  25. Language and Metaphysics