ABSTRACT

This is Volume VI of eight in a series on the Philosophy of Mind and Language. Originally published in 1932. Bacon, Hobbes, Locke, Berkeley, Hume - to his five great predecessors Bentham acknowledges his debt. It is the purpose of the present volume to give some indication of the debt which future generations may acknowledge to Jeremy Bentham, when he has taken his place as sixth in the line of the great tradition—and in some respects its most original representative.

part 1|101 pages

General outline

chapter 1|51 pages

Linguistic fictions

chapter 2|7 pages

Fictions in psychology 1

chapter 3|4 pages

Elliptical fictions 1

chapter 4|5 pages

Fiction and metaphor 1

chapter 5|30 pages

Exposition 1

Clearness in discourse, how to produce it and hence of exposition

chapter 6|3 pages

Language as a sign-system 1

part 2|32 pages

Special problems

chapter 1|4 pages

Motion, rest, and relativity 1

chapter 2|4 pages

Substantive and adjective 1

chapter 3|4 pages

The fiction of right. 1

chapter 4|4 pages

The fiction of an original contract 1

chapter 5|11 pages

Analysis, physical and linguistic 1

chapter 6|4 pages

Summary 1