Contents -- Preface to the French Edition -- Abbreviations -- Chapter One Introduction: Words and Things -- 1. Aim of the Lectures -- 2. Early Brahmanical Literature -- 3. Pāṇini's Grammar -- 4. A Passage from the Chāndogya Upanisạd -- 5. The Structures of Languages -- 6. The Buddhist Contribution -- 7. Vaiśesịka and Language -- 8. Verbal Knowledge -- Chapter Two The Correspondence Principle -- 1. The Contradictions of Nāgārjuna -- 2. The Reactions of Other Thinkers -- 3. Sarvāstivāda -- 4. Sāṃkhya -- 5. The Āgamaśāstra of Gauḍapāda -- 6. Śaṅkara -- 7. Kashmiri Śaivism -- 8. Jainism -- 9. Early Vaiśeṣika -- 10. Critiques of the Existence of a Thing before Its Arising -- 11. Nyāya -- 12. Mīmāṃsā -- 13. The Abhidharmakośa Bhāṣya of Vasubandhu -- 14. The Abhidharmasamuccaya of Asaṅga and Its Bhāṣya -- 15. Bhartṛhari -- 16. The Problem of Negation -- 17. Dignāga and Verbal Knowledge -- 18. The Bodhisattvabhūmi -- 19. Prajñākaragupta -- 20. Indian Thinkers and the Correspondence Principle -- Appendix The Mahāprajñāpāramitāśāstra and the Sāṃkhya tanmātras -- Bibliography -- Cited Passages -- Index.