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In this book Mr. Putman presents for the first time his theory of semantics or, in the vernacular, "How language works." Other theories abound. Frege, Russell, Strawson, Donnellan are some of the famous philosophers of the past who's semantic theories are in print. Until now, few of us cared which theory of semantics is correct. We know language works and we use it. But the theory presented in this book is different. It has a practical bent. Once you understand Putman's "Distinctive Semantics" from Chapter 1 of this book, you can make use of it whenever you read or write. Just how to make use...

The poems comprising this book, and the stories they tell came to me at various times throughout my late 30's and early 40's. I don't know why. I confess, though, that I never discouraged them. When the poem repeated itself long enough in my head it became indelible there and I typed the poem on my portable Royal typewriter. I doubt they were heaven sent, and even if they were I may have unwittingly changed them as I converted Almighty Speak to my Prairie English. As a flat-lander I have a tendency to generalize most of what I see and what I hear so these poems are, at best, a "generality" of...