Part I: Philosophical Discussion
1 Introduction to the Main Principles of Anti-Realism .......... 3
2 Scientific v. Semantic Realism ............................... 7
3 The Publicity of Meaning .................................... 13
4 The Behaviourist Method in Semantics and the Alleged
Indeterminacy of Meaning .................................... 20
5 The Compositionality of Meaning ............................. 31
6 Holism ...................................................... 47
7 Molecularity ................................................ 56
8 Anti-Realism and Radical Interpretation: Or, the Old
Method of Truth in the New Metaphysics ...................... 66
9 Harmony and the Aetiology of Entrenchment ................... 76
10 Harmony and Conservative Extension .......................... 99
11 The Dummettian Reductio .................................... 111
12 Truth and the Recognition of Truth-making .................. 128
13 The Recursive Definition of Valid Argument ................. 134
14 On Progressive Acquisition, and the Problems with
Bivalence .................................................. 144
15 On Decidability: Do We Know What We Mean When We Mean
What We Say? ............................................... 159
16 Game-theoretical Semantics ................................. 169
17 Anti-Realism and Choice of Logic ........................... 185
18 Intuitionistic Relevant Logic is Adequate for Popperian
Science .................................................... 201
19 Transitional Atomic Logic .................................. 209
20 Constructive Logicism: An Adequate Theory of Number ........ 226
21 Putnam's Internal Realism .................................. 239
22 Some Interesting Formal Problems Facing a Development of
the Present View ........................................... 249
Part II: Formal Results
23 Natural Deduction and Sequent Calculus for Intuitionistic
Relevant Logic ............................................. 253
24 A Generalized Godel-Glivenko Theorem ....................... 266
25 On Deriving the Basic Laws of Arithmetic: or, How to
Frege-Wright a Dedekind-Peano .............................. 275
26 Logic in Finite and Decidable Domains ...................... 301
Bibliography .................................................. 306
Recommended Supplementary Reading ............................. 313
Index ......................................................... 319
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