Knowledge and Language: Selected Essays of L. Jonathan Cohen

Preface. Introduction.- 1. On the Project of a Universal Character.- 2. On a Concept of Degree of Grammaticalness.- 3. The Semantics of Metaphor.- 4. Can the Logic of Indirect Discourse be Formalised?- 5. Grice's Views About the Logical Particles of Natural Language.- 6. Can the Conversationalist Hypothesis be Defended?- 7. How is Conceptual Innovation Possible?- 8. Natural Language Definitions.- 9. A Problem About Ambiguity in Truth-Theoretical Semantics.- 10. The Individuation of Proper Names.- 11. Third World Epistemology.- 12. Guessing.- 13. Bayesianism versus Baconianism in the Evaluation of Medical Diagnoses.- 14. Are People Programmed to Commit Fallacies?- 15. Inductive Logic 1945-1977.- 16. Some Remarks on the Baconian Conception of Probability.- 17. Twelve Questions about Keynes's Concept of Weight.- 18. Some Steps towards a General Theory of Relevance.- 19. Should a Jury Say What it Believes or what it Accepts?- 20. Ethical Reasons for Being, or not Being, a Scientific Realist.