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Truth & Generosity: Table of Contents

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Introduction

Chapter 1: The Principle of Generosity

Chapter 2: Violations of the Principle of Generosity

Chapter 3: The Poetry of Ordinary Language

Chapter 4: What Language is Not

Chapter 5: Etymology and Truth

Chapter 6: Social Influences on Semantic Change

Chapter 7: Politics and Relativism

Chapter 8: Trust and Doubt

Chapter 9: The Origin of Language

Chapter 10: Radical Interpretation

Chapter 11: How We Recognize Language as Language

Chapter 12: The Body of Truth

Chapter 13: The Heart of Truth

Chapter 14: Generosity Beyond the Sentence

Chapter 15: The Interpretive Ideal

Chapter 16: Interpreting the World through Generosity

Bonus Chapter: The Socratic Dialectic and Generosity

Front and Back Matter

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