Foreword Preface Acknowledgements PART ONE: THE ART OF KNOWING Chapter 1 OBJECTIVITY 1. The Lesson of the Copernican Revolution 2. The Growth of Mechanism 3. Relativity 4. Objectivity and Modern Physics Chapter 2 PROBABILITY 5. Programme 6. Unambiguous Statements 7. Probability Statements 8.
Probability of Propositions 9. The Nature of Assertions 10. Maxims 11. Grading of Confidence Chapter 3 ORDER 12. Chance and Order 13. Randomness and Significant Pattern 14. The Law of Chemical Proportions 15. Crystallography Chapter 4 SKILLS 16.
The Practice of Skills 17. Destructive Analysis 18. Tradition 19. Connoisseurship 20. Two Kinds of Awareness 21. Wholes and Meanings 22. Tools and Frameworks 23. Commitment 24.
Unspecifiability 25. Summary PART TWO: THE TACIT COMPONENT Chapter 5 ARTICULATION 26. Introduction 27. Inarticulate Intelligence 28. Operational Principles of Language 29. The Powers of Articulate Thought 30. Thought and Speech. I.
Text and Meaning 31. Forms of Tacit Assent 32. Thought and Speech. II. Conceptual Decisions 33. The Educated Mind 34. The Re-interpretation of Language 35. Understanding Logical Operations 36.
Introduction to Problem-Solving 37. Mathematical Heuristics Chapter 6 INTELLECTUAL PASSIONS 38. Sign-Posting 39. Scientific Value 40. Heuristic Passion 41. Elegance and Beauty 42. Scientific Controversy 43. The Premisses of Science 44.
Passions, Private and Public 45. Science and Technology 46. Mathematics 47. The Affirmation of Mathematics 48. Axiomatization of Mathematics 49. The Abstract Arts 50. Dwelling In and Breaking Out Chapter 7 CONVIVIALITY 51. Introduction 52.
Communication 53. Transmission of Social Lore 54. Pure Conviviality 55. The Organization of Society 56. Two Kinds of Culture 57. Administration of Individual Culture 58. Administration of Civic Culture 59. Naked Power 60.
Power Politics 61. The Magic of Marxism 62. Spurious Forms of Moral Inversion 63. The Temptation of the Intellectuals 64. Marxist-Leninist Epistemology 65. Matters of Fact 66. Post-Marxian Liberalism PART THREE: THE JUSTIFICATION OF PERSONAL KNOWLEDGE Chapter 8 THE LOGIC OF AFFIRMATION 67. Introduction 68.
The Confident Use of Language 69. The Questioning of Descriptive Terms 70. Precision 71. The Personal Mode of Meaning 72. Assertions of Fact 73. Towards an Epistemology of Personal Knowledge 74. Inference 75. Automation in General 76.
Neurology and Psychology 77. On Being Critical 78. The Fiduciary Programme Chapter 9 THE CRITIQUE OF DOUBT 79. The Doctrine of Doubt 80. Equivalence of Belief and Doubt 81. Reasonable and Unreasonable Doubt 82. Scepticism within the Natural Sciences 83. Is Doubt a Heuristic Principle? 84.
Agnostic Doubt in Courts of Law 85. Religious Doubt 86. Implicit Beliefs 87. Three Aspects of Stability 88. The Stability of Scientific Beliefs 89. Universal Doubt Chapter 10 COMMITMENT 90. Fundamental Beliefs 91. The Subjective, the Personal and the Universal 92.
The Coherence of Commitment 93. Evasion of Commitment 94. The Structure of Commitment: I 95. The Structure of Commitment: II 96. Indeterminacy and Self-Reliance 97. Existential Aspects of Commitment 98. Varieties of Commitment 99. Acceptance of Calling PART FOUR: KNOWING AND BEING Chapter 11 THE LOGIC OF ACHIEVEMENT 100.
Introduction 101. Rules of Rightness 102. Causes and Reasons 103. Logic and Psychology 104. Originality in Animals 105. Explanations of Equipotentiality 106. Logical Levels Chapter 12 KNOWING LIFE 107. Introduction 108.
Trueness to Type 109. Morphogenesis 110. Living Machinery 111. Action and Perception 112. Learning 113. Learning and Induction 114. Human Knowledge 115. Superior Knowledge 116.
At the Point of Confluence Chapter 13 THE RISE OF MAN 117. Introduction 118. Is Evolution an Achievement? 119. Randomness, an Example of Emergence 120. The Logic of Emergence 121. Conception of a Generalized Field 122. The Emergence of Machine-like Operations 123. First Causes and Ultimate Ends INDEX.