8. Failure to Refer

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Preface vii
3. Contents ix
4. I Material Falsity
5. 1. Thinking One Thing Is Another 3
6. 2. A Little History 14
7. II What Confusion Is
8. 3. Fred and the Ant Colony 27
9. 4. The Semantic Use of Psychological Language 37
10. III A Little Logic
11. 5. Ambiguity 49
12. 6. Humoring 55
13. IV Truth-Valuing
14. 7. Calibration 71
15. 8. Failure to Refer 83
16. 9. How You Convince People—Including Yourself— of the Theory of Descriptions 90
17. 10. Trying to Predicate Existence 105
18. V A Logic for Confusion
19. 11. Explicating 121
20. 12. Good Advice 125
21. 13. How Fred Should Think 145
22. VI Curing Confusion
23. 14. Semantic Self-Awareness 163
24. 15. Two Charleys 176
25. 16. Young Newton 182
26. VII Flexible Sameness
27. 17. Self-Induced Confusion 191
28. 18. The Theory of Ideas 194
29. 19. Making Category Mistakes and Loving It 205
30. Notes 219
31. Index 243