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Preface to <strong>the</strong> English translation<br />

CONTENTS<br />

page xi<br />

Foreword xiii<br />

Introduction<br />

by Oskar Kraus<br />

PART ONE: THE EARLIER VIEW<br />

I.<br />

II.<br />

On <strong>the</strong> Concept of Truth (Lecture delivered to <strong>the</strong> Vienna<br />

Philosophical<br />

Society on 27 March, 1889)<br />

Being in <strong>the</strong> Sense of <strong>the</strong> <strong>True</strong> (Fragment. Written not later<br />

than1902)<br />

III. Descartes’ Classification of Mental Phenomena (1889) 20<br />

IV. Windelb<strong>and</strong>’s Error with Respect to <strong>the</strong> Classification of Mental<br />

Phenomena (1889)<br />

V. Critique of Sigwart’s <strong>The</strong>ory of <strong>the</strong> Existential <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> Negative<br />

Judgement (1889)<br />

VI. On <strong>the</strong> <strong>Evident</strong>: Critique of Descartes <strong>and</strong> Sigwart. (1889) 37<br />

PART TWO: TRANSITION TO THE LATER VIEW<br />

I.<br />

Grammatical Abstracta as Linguistic Fictions. (From a letter to<br />

Antony Marty of March 1901)<br />

II. <strong>The</strong> Equivocal Use of <strong>the</strong> Term “Existent” (September 1904) 45<br />

III. Language (Fragment of 16 November, 1905) 49<br />

PART THREE: THE LATER VIEW AS SET FORTH IN LETTERS<br />

I. On <strong>the</strong> So-called “Immanent or Intentional Object” (Letter to Anton<br />

Marty, 17 March, 1905)<br />

II.<br />

Ens Rationis <strong>and</strong> Ens Irreale (Letters to Anton Marty,<br />

1 March,<br />

1906)<br />

III. In Opposition to <strong>the</strong> So-called Contents of Judgement, Propositions,<br />

Objectives, States of Affairs<br />

xiv<br />

2<br />

18<br />

23<br />

27<br />

43<br />

52<br />

page 54<br />

56

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