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Volume 9, Number 1, January, 1953-1955
Volume 10, Number 1, January, 1956-1958
Volume 11, Number 1, March, 1959
Volume 11, Number 2, June, 1959
Volume 11, Number 3, September, 1959
Volume 11, Number 4, December, 1959


Synthese
Volume 9, Number 1, January, 1953-1955

               Philipp G. Frank   Non-scientific symbols in science  . . . 3--9
                        J. Clay   Obituary Hans Reichenbach  . . . . . . . 10--12
               Vittorio Somenzi   An exemplification of ``operational
                                  methodology''  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--25
                Jacques Ruytinx   Le développement du probl\`eme de l'Unité
                                  de la Science dans l'Empirisme Logique.
                                  (French) [The Development of the Problem
                                  of the Unity of Science in Logical
                                  Empiricism]  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--41
                    D. P. Henry   Tautology tessellations  . . . . . . . . 42--47
             Gabriel Nuchelmans   The analysis of counterfactual
                                  conditionals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48--63
                      Anonymous   Philosophical periodicals  . . . . . . . 64--64
                   Emile Sicard   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--70
                    Jean Piaget   Les Activités Mentales en rapport avec
                                  les Expressions Symboliques logiques et
                                  mathématiques. (French) [Mental
                                  Activities in Relation to Logical and
                                  Mathematical Symbolic Expressions] . . . 73--90
                     A. Heyting   G. F. C. Griss and his negationless
                                  intuitionistic mathematics . . . . . . . 91--96
               H. J. Groenewold   Quantum mechanics and its models . . . . 97--103
                    Laura Grimm   On the application of the concept of
                                  precisation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104--120
                 W. Manders and   
                      D. Vuysje   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--126
                      Anonymous   Corrigendum  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128--128
                    P. H. Esser   Inaugural address  . . . . . . . . . . . 133--136
                 D. van Dantzig   Some informal information on
                                  ``information''  . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--144
                G. Mannoury and   
                      D. Vuysje   Semantic and signific aspects of modern
                                  theories of communication  . . . . . . . 147--156
                Anatol Rapoport   What is information? . . . . . . . . . . 157--173
                J. L. van Soest   An introduction to scientific
                                  information  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177--181
                   D. M. Mackay   Operational aspects of some fundamental
                                  concepts of human communication  . . . . 182--198
                 J. F. Schouten   On the concepts of endechy and
                                  manipulation and their application to
                                  information theory . . . . . . . . . . . 199--204
                     Dov Tamari   Une contribution aux théories modernes de
                                  communication: machines de Turing et
                                  probl\`emes de mot. (French) [A
                                  contribution to modern communication
                                  theories: Turing machines and word
                                  problems]  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205--227
         J. Droogleever Fortuyn   Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231--232
            Warren S. McCulloch   Information in the head  . . . . . . . . 233--247
                George Karreman   The mathematical biology of
                                  physiological excitation . . . . . . . . 248--251
                   Hl. de Vries   The information capacity of the human
                                  ear and of the cochlear nerve  . . . . . 252--254
                George Karreman   Recent mathematical--biological studies
                                  on communication . . . . . . . . . . . . 255--261
                J. L. van Soest   A contribution of information to
                                  sociology  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265--273
                    B. Poortman   Foundations of organization  . . . . . . 274--288
                  Surindar Suri   The communicative process  . . . . . . . 289--295
            Yehoshua Bar-Hillel   Information and content: A semantic
                                  analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--305
               Oliver L. Reiser   Logic, cybernetics, and semantics  . . . 306--318
              A. J. J. De Witte   Transformation of speech into writing
                                  and simplification . . . . . . . . . . . 321--325
                    M. De Vries   Concealment of information . . . . . . . 326--336
                    P. H. Esser   Final speech . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339--339
         Ingemund Gullvåg   Criteria of meaning and analysis of
                                  usage  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341--361
              Campbell Crockett   The distinction between modernizing and
                                  dissolving aesthetics  . . . . . . . . . 362--371
                     Th. Skolem   The logical nature of arithmetic . . . . 375--384
                   R. Vermeulen   Validity of hypotheses . . . . . . . . . 385--394
              J. J. W. Berghuys   L'objet de la géometrie. (French) [The
                                  object of geometry]  . . . . . . . . . . 395--407
                 E. W. Beth and   
                      Esser and   
           H. J. Groenewold and   
                    Leo Apostel   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411--416
                      Anonymous   In memoriam Jacob Clay . . . . . . . . . 423--427
                   H. F. Jongen   The physicist J. Clay  . . . . . . . . . 428--432
               Philipp G. Frank   Einstein . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435--437
                    G. Mannoury   The cultural phenomenon Albert Einstein  438--441
                   A. D. Fokker   Albert Einstein, inventor of
                                  chronogeometry . . . . . . . . . . . . . 442--445
                     E. W. Beth   Nieuwentijt's significance for the
                                  philosophy of science  . . . . . . . . . 447--453
               Hans Freudenthal   Nieuwentijt und der teleologische
                                  Gottesbeweis. (German) [Nieuwentijt and
                                  the teleological proof of God] . . . . . 454--464
                   Paul Bernays   Die Mathematik als ein zugleich
                                  Vertrautes und Unbekanntes. (German)
                                  [Mathematics as a simultaneously
                                  familiar and unknown]  . . . . . . . . . 465--471
                 Karl Dürr   Die Syllogistik des Johannes Hospinianus
                                  (1515--1575). (German) [The Syllogistics
                                  of Johannes Hospinianus (1515--1575)]    472--484
                J. A. Vollgraff   Kurze Bemerkungen, und Zitate, über
                                  Vergangenheit und Zukunft der
                                  Mathematik, so wie Gino Loria
                                  (1862--1954) versucht hat sich Dieselben
                                  zu Denken. (German) [Short remarks, and
                                  quotes, on the past and future of
                                  mathematics, as Gino Loria (1862--1954)
                                  has tried to think of Diesel]  . . . . . 485--491
                   E. B. Plooij   The torch of philosophy, a smoking flax  492--498
                  L. Kaiser and   
                      D. Vuysje   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 501--503


Synthese
Volume 10, Number 1, January, 1956-1958

                      Anonymous   Acknowledgments  . . . . . . . . . . . . 4--4
                      Anonymous   Preface and introduction . . . . . . . . 5--9
                    G. Mannoury   After thirty years . . . . . . . . . . . 13--14
                  Philipp Frank   Introductory address . . . . . . . . . . 15--19
                    Jean Piaget   Méthode axiomatique et méthode
                                  opérationnelle. (French) [Axiomatic
                                  method and operational method] . . . . . 23--43
           Bärbel Inhelder   La gen\`ese de l'Idée de hasard et la
                                  résistance du réel aux opérations. (French)
                                  [The genesis of the Idea of chance and
                                  the resistance of the real to
                                  operations]  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44--50
                     P. Fevrier   Tendances constructives en logique
                                  moderne. (French) [Constructive Trends
                                  in Modern Logic] . . . . . . . . . . . . 52--58
          Jean-Louis Destouches   Descriptions operationnelles en physique
                                  moderne. (French) [Operational
                                  descriptions in modern physics]  . . . . 59--64
           D. L. Székely   Begriffsbildung und Operationalismus.
                                  (German) [Conceptualisation and
                                  operationalism]  . . . . . . . . . . . . 65--70
                   Pius Servien   La représentation mathématique des
                                  observables. (French) [The mathematical
                                  representation of observables] . . . . . 71--75
                Georges Bourgin   La méthode historique. (French) [The
                                  historical method] . . . . . . . . . . . 79--83
                    Roger Houin   Une enquête sur l'application du droit
                                  dans la pratique. (French) [An
                                  investigation into the application of
                                  law in practice] . . . . . . . . . . . . 84--90
              A. J. J. de Witte   Towards a new grammar  . . . . . . . . . 91--101
                        F. Denk   Signifik und Heuristik. (German)
                                  [Significance and Heuristics]  . . . . . 102--107
                        J. Clay   Combination of methods . . . . . . . . . 111--119
                    G. Mannoury   Didactic problems in significs . . . . . 123--126
                    Jean Piaget   Les activités mentales en rapport avec
                                  les expressions symboliques logiques et
                                  mathématiques. (French) [Mental
                                  activities in relation to logical and
                                  mathematical symbolic expressions] . . . 127--145
                  S. J. Geursen   Significs and mathematical teaching  . . 146--147
        David L. Székely   Formalisierung der Einheitswissenschaft
                                  mit Dimensionsbegriffen von variabler
                                  Exaktheit. (German) [Formalization of
                                  unit science with dimensions of variable
                                  accuracy]  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148--170
                        F. Denk   Die mathematischen Begriffe und ihr
                                  Ausdruck. (German) [Mathematical
                                  Concepts and Their Expression] . . . . . 173--180
                  Paul Lorenzen   Ist Mathematik eine Sprache?. (German)
                                  [Is mathematics a language?] . . . . . . 181--186
                 Emil J. Walter   Die Ausbildung der mathematischen
                                  Zeichensprache und ihr Einfluss auf die
                                  Entwicklung der mathematischen
                                  Problemstellung. (German) [The formation
                                  of mathematical sign language and its
                                  influence on the development of
                                  mathematical problems] . . . . . . . . . 187--189
                  Gerald Holton   A heuristic model for the growth process
                                  of modern physical science . . . . . . . 190--202
               H. J. Groenewold   Quantum mechanics and its models . . . . 203--209
                 B. H. Kazemier   Formal systems and mental activity . . . 210--219
                        J. Clay   Main tendencies in present-day physics   220--225
              A. J. J. De Witte   Ways of interpretation. A didactic study 229--237
              Karl Döhmann   Ursprung und Entwicklung, Typen und
                                  Funktionen der Zeichen. (German) [Origin
                                  and development, types and functions of
                                  signs] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238--245
                    P. H. Esser   Non-verbal responses to verbal stimuli   246--258
              Maurice Leenhardt   Modes d'expression en sociologie et en
                                  ethnologie. (French) [Modes of
                                  expression in sociology and ethnology]   259--264
                Georges Bourgin   Neutralité. (French) [Neutrality] . . . . 265--269
                   A. C. Leyton   Semantic aspects of sociological studies 270--278
                Vladimir Cervin   Linguistic problems in recent social
                                  research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279--281
                   Ch. Perelman   Résumé des interventions. (French)
                                  [Summary of interventions] . . . . . . . 285--289
               H. J. Groenewold   Non-scientific elements in the
                                  development of science . . . . . . . . . 293--311
                    G. Mannoury   The ideological background of the
                                  foundation of mathematics  . . . . . . . 315--317
                 P. W. Bridgman   Some philosophical aspects of science    318--326
                    S. Gagnebin   Quelques remarques subjectives sur
                                  l'objectivité en sciences et en
                                  philosophie. (French) [Some subjective
                                  remarks on objectivity in science and
                                  philosophy]  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327--334
                  Philipp Frank   The role of authority in the
                                  interpretation of science  . . . . . . . 335--338
 Jòrgen Jòrgensen   The role of the irrational in the
                                  development of logic . . . . . . . . . . 341--348
                     L. Apostel   The formal structure of action . . . . . 349--356
                  Chr. P. Raven   Irrational elements in some theories of
                                  life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359--363
                C.-M. Lajberich   De quelques réactions émotionnelles
                                  irrationnelles chez l'enfant et
                                  notamment chez l'enfant slave. (French)
                                  [On some irrational emotional reactions
                                  in the child and especially in the
                                  Slavic child]  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364--368
                      D. Vuysje   A. ``Verification'' of statements in
                                  psychology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369--372
                    P. H. Esser   B. ``Verification'' of statements in
                                  psychiatry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373--377
                      L. Kaiser   Aspects of some results of experimental
                                  phonetics  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381--384
              A. J. J. de Witte   The role of the irrational in the
                                  development of phonetics . . . . . . . . 385--386
                Alvin C. Leyton   The role of the irrational in sociology  389--398
                   Emile Sicard   De quelques r\`egles d'interprétation des
                                  éléments irrationnels de la
                                  psycho-sociologie des peuples par
                                  l'analyse psycho-linguistique des
                                  vocables et des réactions sociales qu'ils
                                  provoquent, notamment chez les Slaves.
                                  (French) [Ib some rules of
                                  interpretation of the irrational
                                  elements of the psycho-sociology of
                                  people through the psycho-linguistic
                                  analysis of the vocables and of the
                                  social reactions they provoke,
                                  especially among the Slavs]  . . . . . . 399--407
                      Anonymous   Gerrit Mannoury  . . . . . . . . . . . . 409--413
                Georges Bourgin   Hommage \`a Gerrit Mannoury. (French)
                                  [Tribute to Gerrit Mannoury] . . . . . . 414--415
                      Anonymous   Gerrit Mannoury May 17, 1867--January
                                  30, 1956 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 416--417
                      Anonymous   Bibliography of the writings of Gerrit
                                  Mannoury . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 418--422
                 D. van Dantzig   Mannoury's impact on philosophy and
                                  significs  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423--431
                     E. W. Beth   On Mannoury's method . . . . . . . . . . 432--439
                     A. Heyting   Mannoury's ``\booktitleMethodologisches
                                  Und Philosophisches Zur
                                  Elementarmathematik''  . . . . . . . . . 440--444
          Jean Louis Destouches   La Signifique de Mannoury Comparée \`a la
                                  Physique Quantique et \`a la
                                  Cybernétique. (French) [The Significance
                                  of Mannoury Compared to Quantum Physics
                                  and Cybernetics] . . . . . . . . . . . . 445--447
              A. J. J. de Witte   Significs and linguistics  . . . . . . . 448--453
                 P. J. Meertens   Sociological conceptions of G. Mannoury  454--460
                 A. D. de Groot   The meaning of trait concepts  . . . . . 461--470
                     Arne Naess   Logical equivalence, intentional
                                  isomorphism and synonymity as studied by
                                  questionnaires . . . . . . . . . . . . . 471--479


Synthese
Volume 11, Number 1, March, 1959

                      Anonymous   Introduction to the new volume . . . . . 3--4
               Henri Levy-Bruhl   In Memoriam/Georges Bourgin  . . . . . . 5--6
                 Stuart C. Dodd   The reiteration rule . . . . . . . . . . 7--32
                Finngeir Hiorth   Distances of meaning and semantical
                                  tests  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--62
                   F. H. George   Language, philosophy and empirical
                                  science  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--71
               Herman Tennessen   `The system of private enterprise', an
                                  empirio-semantical analysis of a slogan  72--83
                 E. W. Beth and   
         Edward W. Barankin and   
                   A. Cohen and   
                J. L. van Soest   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84--94
                      Anonymous   Recent periodicals . . . . . . . . . . . 95--96

Synthese
Volume 11, Number 2, June, 1959

                      Anonymous   Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--103
                J. L. van Soest   Information and interpretation . . . . . 104--111
                    Julien Loeb   Le Calcul de L'Ambiguité de Shannon en
                                  Code Binaire. (French) [Calculation of
                                  the Shannon Ambiguity in Binary Code]    112--118
           F. L. H. M. Stumpers   Interpretation and communication theory  119--126
                  Louise Kaiser   Informative sound patterns in speech . . 127--136
                   Felix Trojan   Bedeutung, Gegenstandsbeziehing und Sinn
                                  im Sprachmimischen Zeichensystem.
                                  (German) [Meaning, subject-related and
                                  meaning in the speech--mimic--sign
                                  system]  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--149
               Vittorio Somenzi   Human interpretation and automatic
                                  interpretation in physics  . . . . . . . 150--152
           André Mercier   Note sur l'Interprétation de la Causalité
                                  en Physique Moderne. (French) [Note on
                                  the Interpretation of Causality in
                                  Modern Physics]  . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--159
           Beno\^\it Mandelbrot   Information sans Interprétation dans la
                                  Déscription des Langues Réelles. (French)
                                  [Information without interpretation in
                                  the description of real languages] . . . 160--166
                     Dov Tamari   Interprétations en Mathématiques. (French)
                                  [Interpretations in Mathematics] . . . . 167--176
                Alvin C. Leyton   Sociology and obligations of
                                  interpretation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177--196
              Campbell Crockett   On interpretations of `interpretation'   197--214
                    Roger Houin   Le Probl\`eme d'Interprétation dans le
                                  Droit. (French) [The Problem of
                                  Interpretation in Law] . . . . . . . . . 215--219
              A. J. J. De Witte   Psycho-linguistic principles and
                                  backgrounds of misinterpretation . . . . 220--222
                      Anonymous   The library of philosophical movements   223--223
                      Anonymous   Congresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223--223
                      Anonymous   Recent periodicals . . . . . . . . . . . 224--226

Synthese
Volume 11, Number 3, September, 1959

                     E. W. Beth   Science and classification . . . . . . . 231--244
                   F. H. George   Meaning and behaviour  . . . . . . . . . 245--258
                Joseph Margolis   The demand for a justification of
                                  induction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259--264
                    A. N. Prior   Formalised syllogistic . . . . . . . . . 265--273
               Herman Tennessen   Evidence and illustration  . . . . . . . 274--276
                H. A. Weissmann   The essence of universals  . . . . . . . 277--293
                  Jason Xenakis   Ordinary-language philosophy: Language,
                                  logic and philosophy . . . . . . . . . . 294--306
                      Anonymous   New societies  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307--307
                      Anonymous   Congresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308--308
                      Anonymous   Nederlandse Vereniging Voor Logica en
                                  Wijsbegeerte der Exacte Wetenschappen.
                                  (Dutch) [Dutch Association for Logic and
                                  Philosophy of Physical Sciences] . . . . 309--310

Synthese
Volume 11, Number 4, December, 1959

                      Anonymous   Memorial to David van Dantzig: van
                                  Dantzig as a significist . . . . . . . . 319--328
                   J. F. Koksma   In memoriam David van Dantzig  . . . . . 329--334
                   J. Hemelrijk   David van Dantzig's statistical work . . 335--351
                 D. van Dantzig   G. Pólya mathematics and plausible
                                  reasoning  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353--358
                 J. J. C. Smart   Can biology be an exact science? . . . . 359--368
               Herman Tennessen   Logical oddities and locutional
                                  scarcities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369--388
           H. J. Groenewold and   
                P. H. Esser and   
                    N. de Raadt   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389--400
                      Anonymous   Recent periodicals . . . . . . . . . . . 401--404
                      Anonymous   International Society of Cybernetic
                                  Medicine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405--405