Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Five Ways of Naming Things; 2. Nouns, Verbs, and Contexts; 3. How Names Are Given; 4. A Sequence of Indications; 5. The Origins of Syntax; 6. Complications of Syntax in Four Directions. The Proposition; 7. Words and Sentences as Achievements; 8. The Proposition as Achievement; 9. The Proposition as a Rule for Sentences; 10. The Sentence as a Signal for Propositional Achievement; 11. Four Series of Refinements; 12. Recognizing Essentials; 13. Philosophy: Analysis of the Kinds of Presentation; 14. First philosophy: Analysis of Being as Being.