ABSTRACT
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
(Albert Einstein ‘Physics and reality’ 1973:290)
It has been the aim of this book to present a coherent, consistent, and comprehensive account of linguistic meaning, centered around a theory of meaning. Our account has been primarily intended for the enlightenment of students and not, for instance, as a formal model for programming a machine to interpret utterances of L; consequently it has been expressed in such a way as to be transparently ‘a refinement of everyday thinking’ (in Einstein’s words), rather than a journey into esoteric formalism.1
