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Good. moderate shelfwear, small creases, po name and bookplate, first stated, softcover. xii, 463 p.; 22 cm. Bibliography: p. 453-458. From the Introduction: "This book contains most of my previously published papers, excerpts from my three earlier books, and some half-dozen items not before published. These papers have been gathered into chapters according to subject, and a new foreword supplied for each chapter." Sampling of topics (sub-chapter titles): **The Revision of Philosophy**The Way of the World**Some Reflections of the Theory of Systems**Descartes as Philosopher**Sense and Certainty**The Emperor's New Ideas**Art and Authenticity**Art and Inquiry**Merit as Means**Review of Gombrich's Art and Illusion**Steps Toward a Constructive Nominalism (w/ W.V. Quine)**Meaning: Talk of Time**On Some Differences about Meaning**On a Pseudo-Test of Translation**About**The Test of Simplicity**Condensation vs. Simplification**Elimination of Extralogical Postulates (w/ W.V. Quine)**Science and Simplicity**Uniformity and Simplicity**A Query on Confirmation**On Infirmities of Confirmation-Theory**The New Riddle of Induction**An Improvement in the Theory of Projectibility (w/ R. Schwartz & I. Scheffler)**Inductive Translation**Replies to Comments on Fact, Fiction, and Forecast**Review of Reichenbach's Elements of Symbolic Logic**Snowflakes and Wastebaskets**Order from Indifference**Seven Strictures on Similarity**The Truth-Tellers and the Liars**Sources...**Name Index**