ESSAYS ON SIGNIFICS PAPERS PRESENTED ON THE OCCASION OF THE 150TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE BIRTH OF VICTORIA LADY WELBY (1837-1912) -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- PREFACE -- REFERENCES -- I. THE SOCIAL AND LITERARY BACKGROUND: THE WELBY FAMILY -- GENEALOGY OF VICTORIA, LADY WELBY -- SOME ACCOUNT OF THE LITERARY PRODUCTION OF LADY WELBY AND HER FAMILY -- References -- Books by Emmeline Stuart-Wortley -- Books by Nina Cust -- II. SIGNIFIC SIGNPOSTS AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY -- SIGNIFICS: THE ANALYSIS OF MEANING AS CRITIQUE OF MODERNIST CULTURE -- 1) The Question of "Nomenclature" -- 2) Language and Mind -- 3) The Self and Its Conceptualization -- 4) World and Society -- NOTES -- ANTICIPATORY THEMES IN THE WRITINGS OF LADY WELBY -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- III. SIGNIFICS BETWEEN SEMANTICS AND SEMIOTICS: COMPARATIVE ANALYSES -- FRENCH SEMANTICS OF THE LATE NINETEENTH CENTURY AND LADY WELBY'S SIGNIFICS -- 1. Failure of a Relationship -- 2. The French Origin of Semantics -- 3. Two Paradigms -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- VICTORIA LADY WELBY AND CHARLES SANDERS PEIRCE: MEANING AND SIGNIFICATION -- Ethics of Terminology: Meaning and Metaphor -- Signifies and Pragmaticism -- Significs and Semeiotic -- The Philosophy behind Significs and Semeiotic -- Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- SIGNIFICS AND F.C.S. SCHILLER'S CRITIQUE OF FORMAL LOGIC -- REFERENCES -- THEORY OF MEANING AND THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE: VAILATI AND LADY WELBY -- REFERENCES -- SIGNIFICS AND C.K. OGDEN: THE INFLUENCE OF LADY WELBY -- Introduction -- The Ogden-Welby Correspondence -- Ogden's 'Significs' Manuscript -- The Meaning of Meaning -- Conclusion -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- SIGN AND MEANING IN VICTORIA WELBY AND MIKHAIL BAKHTIN: A CONFRONTATION -- REFERENCES -- IV. THE SIGNIFIC MOVEMENT IN THE NETHERLANDS.

FREDERIK VAN EEDEN AND THE INTRODUCTION OF SIGNIFICS INTO THE NETHERLANDS: FROM LADY WELBY TO MANNOURY -- 1. A Sketch of the Signific Movement in the Netherlands -- 2. Van Eeden's Contact with Lady Welby and the Creation of His Treatise on "Logical Basis of Mutual Understanding" -- 3. Van Eeden Propagates Significs -- 4. Summary -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- RELATIVISM AND SIGNIFICS: GERRIT MANNOURY ON THE FOUNDATIONS OF MATHEMATICS -- Introduction -- 1. Relatrvistic Foundations -- Formalism and symbolic logic -- Relativism -- Unity and Plurality -- Definition of Number -- Finite and Infinite -- Another Definition of Numbe -- Complete Induction -- Mathematical Existence -- Logic -- Consistency -- 2. Signific Foundations -- The Signifie Method -- Language Levels -- Significs and Mathematics -- Negation -- Concluding Remarks: The Nature of Mathematics -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- V. THE SCIENTIFIC REMAINS OF V. LADY WELBY -- A NOTE ON THE PAPERS OF VICTORIA, LADY WELBY IN THE YORK UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES -- THE LADY WELBY LIBRARY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF LONDON -- NOTES -- VI. BIBLIOGRAPHY OF PUBLICATIONS ON LADY WELBY AND HER SIGNIFICS -- INDEX OF NAMES.