Semantic Analysis I

Abstract

In the first part of the present work we considered some important topics by way of preparing the ground for a critical study of philosophical analysis. With that we pass to a detailed consideration of the major types and forms of philosophical analysis themselves, as we have outlined them in chapter one. The type of analysis to be considered first is “semantic analysis”; and we shall begin with that form of it which we have labelled “Semantic Analysis I.” The other forms of “semantic analysis,” as well as the major forms of “extra-linguistic analysis,” will be taken up in turn in succeeding chapters.