CONTEXTS OF UNDERSTANDING -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- PREFACE -- Table of contents -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 1.1 The difficulty of understanding understanding -- 1.2 Understanding versus explanation, interpretation and translation -- 1.3 Aspects of a psycho-pragmatic theory of understanding -- 2. SIGNIFICANCE AND UNDERSTANDING -- 2.1 Acceptance -- 2.2 What we understand when understanding -- 2.3 How we understand when understanding -- 2.4 Presentification and de s crib ability -- 3. PERSPECTIVAL UNDERSTANDING -- 3.1 PROLEGOMENA -- 3.1.1. The heuristic orientation of the theory of language -- 3.1.2 The pragmatic orientation of the theory of understanding -- 3.1.3. The epistemological orientation of the theory of understanding -- 3.2 FREGEAN INTERLUDE -- 3.3 φ(p* . . . ) -- 3.3..1, The paratactic analysis of {sense, force} -- 3.3.2, φ is neither a mode nor an attitude but rather a mood -- 3.3.3. φ is not a representation but an act-indicator -- 3.4. π[(φ(p* . . . )] -- 3.4.1. The reductionistic analysis of the 'community of significance' -- 3.4.2. The function of the n-operator -- 4. CONTEXTUALISM AND TRANSCENDENTALISM IN THE THEORY OF UNDERSTANDING -- 4.1. CONTEXTUALISM -- 4.1.1. Types of contexts -- CO-TEXT -- INTRINSIC CONTEXT -- EXTRINSIC CONTEXT -- C(p) -- B(p) -- C(φ) -- B(φ) -- B(π) -- C(π) -- 4.2. TRANSCENDENTALISM -- 4.2.1. Psycho-pragmatic transcendentalia -- 4.2.2. The Parsimony Principle -- FOOTNOTES -- REFERENCES.