A book-length treatment of relation between words and meaning using possible-worlds semantics.

Preface; Introduction; 1. A simple formal language; 2. Predicates and functors; 3. The isomorphism problem; 4. Quantification; 5. Transmundism; 6. Putnam's 'Meaning of 'meaning''; 7. Lewis on languages and language; 8. Causation and semantics; 9. Belief-desire psychology; 10. Direct knowledge; References; Index.