Toc: Contents......Page 11Note on Errata......Page 16Preface to 5th Edition, 1993......Page 17Preface to 4th Edition 1958......Page 27Bibliographical Note 1958......Page 33Preface to 3rd Edition 1948......Page 35A. Recent developments and the founding of the Institute of General Semantics......Page 401. The attitudes of 'philosophers', etc.......Page 422. Perplexities in theories of 'meaning'......Page 453. Inadequacy of forms of representation and their structural revision......Page 484. Identifications and mis-evalutations......Page 49C. Revolutions and evolutions......Page 51D. A non-aristotelian revision......Page 55E. New factors: the havoc they play with our generalizations......Page 581. Neurological mechanisms of extensionalization......Page 602. Neuro-semantic relaxation......Page 623. Extensional devices and some applications......Page 634. Implications of the structure of language......Page 65G. Over/Under defined terms......Page 671. 'Maginot like mentalities'......Page 722. Wars of and on nerves......Page 743. Hitler and psycho-logical factors in his life......Page 764. Education for intelligence and democracy......Page 78Conclusion......Page 83Acknowledgements......Page 85Supplementary Bibliography to 2nd Edition......Page 86Preface to 1st Edition 1933......Page 91Acknowledgement......Page 103Book I - A General Survey of Non-Aristotelian Factors......Page 105Part I - Preliminaries......Page 1091. Aims, means and consequences of a non-aristotelian revision......Page 111A. On semantic reactions......Page 123B. On the un-speakable objective level......Page 138C. On 'copying' in our nervous reactions......Page 1403. Introduction......Page 142Part II - General on structure......Page 1574. On structure......Page 1585. General linguistic......Page 1696. On symbolism......Page 1797. Linguistic revision......Page 188Part III - Non-elementalistic structures......Page 2028. General epistemological......Page 2039. Colloidal behaviour......Page 213A. Illustrations from biology......Page 225B. Illustrations from nutrition experiments......Page 228C. Illustrations from 'mental' and nervous diseases......Page 230Part IV - Structural factors in non-aristotelian languages......Page 23311. On function......Page 23412. On order......Page 252A. Undefined terms......Page 253B. Order and the nervous system......Page 258C. Structure, realtions, and multi-dimensional order......Page 262D. Order and the problems of extension and intension......Page 272E. Concluding remarks on order......Page 28313. On relations......Page 28914. On the notion of infinity......Page 30515. The 'infinitesimal' and 'cause and effect'......Page 31516. On the existence of relations......Page 32117. On the notions of 'matter', 'space', 'tim