Abstract

A popular book on semantics, illustrating and commenting on uses of symbols in the social and physical sciences. The author writes best when he deals with subtle uses of language in practical affairs and in politics, but in clarifying notions central to semantics he is too often imprecise and obscure. His selection of quotations and references suggests, furthermore, that he is unacquainted with much of the best recent work in semantics.--I. C. L.