Preface to Second Edition
Preface to First Edition
1. Validity: what follows from what?
2. Truth funtions - or not?
3. Names and quantifiers: is nothing something?
4. Descriptions and existence: did the Greeks worship Zeus?
5. Self-reference: What is this chapter about?
6. Necessity and possibility: what will be must be?
7. Conditionals: what's in an if?
8. The future and the past: is time real?
9. Identity and change: is anything ever the same?
10. Vagueness: how do you stop sliding down a slippery slope?
11. Probability: the strange case of the missing reference class
12. Inverse probability: you can't be indifferent about it!
13. Decision theory: great expectations
14. Halt! What goes there?
15. Maybe it is true - but you can't prove it!
A little history and some further reading
Glossary
Problems
Problem solutions
Bibliography
General index