Introduction: Does This Make Nonsense to You? ; 1 Some Historic Formulations and Their Problems ; 1.1 What about Analytic Sentences? ; 1.2 Conclusive Verifiability Within One's Lifetime ; 1.3 Conclusive Verifiability in Principle ; 1.4 Conclusive Falsifiability in Principle
1.5 Verifiability or Falsifiability 1.6 Empirical Import ; 1.7 Translatability ; 1.8 Summary ; 2 More Problems Lie Ahead ; 2.1 The Problem of Dispositional Terms Spreads Out ; 2.2 Another Problem: Particular Sentences ; 2.3 Yet Another Problem: The Duhem-Quine Thesis
2.4 And Another Problem: The Analytic/Synthetic Distinction 2.5 Summary ; 3 Toward a Solution to the Problems ; 3.1 Conditions of Adequacy ; 3.2 What You Can and What You Should Not Expect ; 3.3 Against Deductive Chauvinism ; 3.4 The Discovery of the Subject
3.5 Counterfactual Conditionals 3.6 Did We Throw Out the Baby With the Bathwater? ; 3.7 Summary ; 4 Minimal Verificationism ; 4.1 The Essence of Verificationism ; 4.2 Epistemic Accessibility as a Criterion of Significance ; 4.3 The Advantages of the New Criterion
4.4 O'Connor's Trick 4.5 The Choice of an Empirical Basis ; 4.6 What Does this Criterion Demarcate? ; 4.7 What Is Minimal about Minimal Verificationism? ; 4.8 Is Minimal Verificationism a Form of Verificationism at All? ; 4.9 Setting the Stage ; 4.10 Summary
