Introduction

Part I The World of Science

1 Individual and Social Knowledge

2 The Universe of Astronomy

3 The World of Physics

4 Biological Evolution

5 The Physiology of Sensation and Volition

6 The Science of Mind

Part II Language

1 The Uses of Language

2 Ostensive Definition

3 Proper Names

4 Egocentric Particulars

5 Suspended Reactions: Knowledge and Belief

6 Sentences

7 External Reference of Ideas and Beliefs

8 Truth: Elementary Forms

9 Logical Words and Falsehood

10 General Knowledge

11 Fact, Belief, Truth, and Knowledge

Part III Science and Perception

Introduction

1 Knowledge of Facts and Knowledge of Laws

2 Solipsism

3 Probable Inference in Common-sense Practice

4 Physics and Experience

5 Time in Experience

6 Space in Psychology

7 Mind and Matter

Part IV Scientific Concepts

1 Interpretation

2 Minimum Vocabularies

3 Structure

4 Structure and Minimum Vocabularies

5 Time, Public and Private

6 Space in Classical Physics

7 Space–Time

8 The Principle of Individuation

9 Causal Laws

10 Space–Time and Causality

Part V Probability

Introduction

1 Kinds of Probability

2 Mathematical Probability

3 The Finite-Frequency Theory

4 The Mises–Reichenbach Theory

5 Keynes's Theory of Probability

6 Degrees of Credibility

7 Probability and Induction

Part VI Postulates of Scientific Inference

1 Kinds of Knowledge

2 The Role of Induction

3 The Postulate of Natural Kinds

4 Knowledge Transcending Experience

5 Causal Lines

6 Structure and Causal Laws

7 Interaction

8 Analogy

9 Summary of Postulates

10 The Limits of Empiricism

Index