TABLE OF CONTENTS

Preface

Silent Speech, Possible Worlds

On J.L. Austin and Hermann Diels

Incongruity in Speech and Translations

Pragmatic form of ‘if’ and ‘unless’

Ranciere’s Account of ‘Silent Speech’

Empsons Theory of Ambiguity

Properties of Cancellation

Georg Miere’s Book on Logic

Kant’s Cosmology Explored

Problems of Empty and Lived Time

The Conversations of Fontenelle

Influence of Voltaire

Conclusion

Afterword

Notes

Bibliography