" This quote appears in an extended form just before the preface of Stevenson's Ethics and Language .</ ref > Influenced by the growth of analytic philosophy and logical positivism in the 20th century, the theory was stated vividly by A. J. Ayer in his 1936 book Language, Truth and Logic, but its development owes more to C. L. Stevenson.

Christoph von Sigwart, in the preface to the first edition of his Logic, makes special mention of the assistance he obtained from this book.

The portion of the preface referred to is substantially the following: " Before we could finish the task entrusted to us of editing our Logic, to which we were bound by many promises, certain German publishers fraudulently brought out a work professing to be from us, abounding in errors and inaccuracies which were really their own.

The Notator preface was dropped from the product name and the software became known as simply Logic.

Bede wrote a preface for the work, in which he dedicates it to Ceolwulf, king of Northumbria.

Bede acknowledged his correspondents in the preface to the Historia Ecclesiastica ; he was in contact with Daniel, the Bishop of Winchester, for information about the history of the church in Wessex, and also wrote to the monastery at Lastingham for information about Cedd and Chad.

Bellarmine wrote the preface to the new Sixto-Clementine Vulgate.

In the book's preface, Heisenberg wrote:

She wrote the preface for On War and by 1834 had published several of his books.

That she wrote the Autobiography, and that preface, and the Poems, and the Plague-spot Bacilli, we are not permitted to doubt.

Many dismissed this as a joke ; but, in his preface to the second edition, Butler wrote:

In 1542 he published a prose satire to which Luther wrote the preface, Der Barfusser Monche Eulenspiegel und Alkoran, a parodic adaptation of the Liber conformitatum of the Franciscan Bartolommeo Rinonico of Pisa, in which the Franciscan order is held up to ridicule.

Some years later, he wrote a forcible preface to a translation of the New Testament issued at his command by his private secretary, Hieronymus Emser, as an offset to Luther's version.

Wells also wrote the preface for the first edition of W. N. P. Barbellion's diaries, The Journal of a Disappointed Man, published in 1919.

Coleridge described how he wrote the poem in the preface to his collection of poems, Christabel, Kubla Khan, and the Pains of Sleep, published in 1816:

In an interview, Smith stated that Kurnaz's family has contacted her and that she wrote a short preface for the book that he was writing.

In 1850, in the preface to his Kashubian-Russian dictionary, Florian Ceynowa wrote about the language of Baltic Slavic peoples:

In the preface, Ramułt wrote:

In a footnote to the preface of Blaze, dated 30 January 2007, King wrote of Rage: " Now out of print, and a good thing.

" For his part, MacDonald wrote an admiring preface to Night Shift, and even had his famous character, Travis McGee, reading Cujo in one of the last McGee novels and Pet Sematary in the last McGee novel, The Lonely Silver Rain.

On 2 January 1897 Gladstone wrote to Francis Hirst on being unable to write a preface to a book on liberalism: " I venture on assuring you that I regard the design formed by you and your friends with sincere interest, and in particular wish well to all the efforts you may make on behalf of individual freedom and independence as opposed to what is termed Collectivism ".

On the other hand, Luther wrote of Melanchthon, in the preface to Melanchthon's Commentary on the Galatians ( 1529 ), " I had to fight with rabble and devils, for which reason my books are very warlike.

In the preface to La Comédie Humaine he wrote: " Christianity, and especially Catholicism, being a complete repression of man's depraved tendencies, is the greatest element in Social Order.

" To arrive at the truth ", he wrote in the preface to Le Lys dans la vallée, " writers use whatever literary device seems capable of giving the greatest intensity of life to their characters.

Her lover Jean Paulhan wrote the preface as if the author were unknown to him.

Jean Paulhan, who was the author's lover and the person to whom she wrote Story of O in the form of love letters, wrote the preface, " Happiness in Slavery ".

Interestingly, in the preface, Paulhan goes out of his way to appear as if he does not know who wrote the book.

In the early 1990s, Masson had been engaged to University of Michigan feminist legal scholar Catharine MacKinnon, who wrote the preface to his A Dark Science: Women, Sexuality, and Psychiatry in the Nineteenth Century.

:" The substance of this book, as it is expressed in the editor's preface, is that to measure " right " by the false philosophy of the Hebrew prophets and " weepful " Messiahs is madness.

In the preface, Abba Mari explains his object in collecting the correspondence ; and in the treatise which follows he shows that the study of philosophy, useful in itself as a help toward the acquisition of the knowledge of God, requires great caution, lest we be misled by the Aristotelian philosophy or its false interpretation, as regards the principles of creation ex nihilo and divine individual providence.

" The preface has evidently been prepared by some one who had before him the completed text of the treatise.

His fame rests chiefly on the preface and notes to his translation of Samuel Pufendorf's treatise De Jure Naturae et Gentium, translated as Of the Law of Nature and Nations, 4th ed., 1729, London, by B. Kennett et al.

" She joined various secret societies-she would reach the thirtieth degree in the mixed Scottish Rite of Freemasonry-while feminist and anarchist groups greeted her with enthusiasm ... In 1899, Alexandra composed an anarchist treatise with a preface by the French geographer and anarchist Elisée Reclus ( 1820-1905 ).

The new preface of the second edition also includes a slightly revised plan of the complete treatise, now divided into twelve chapters.

In Book V, after an interesting preface concerning regular polygons, and containing remarks upon the hexagonal form of the cells of honeycombs, Pappus addresses himself to the comparison of the areas of different plane figures which have all the same perimeter ( following Zenodorus's treatise on this subject ), and of the volumes of different solid figures which have all the same superficial area, and, lastly, a comparison of the five regular solids of Plato.

His first and longest booklet, a treatise on moral education, is printed on only the left-hand pages, and begins with the following preface:

The preface to the 1565 edition mentions that the influential clavichordist and organist Antonio de Cabezón ( and his brother Juan de Cabezón ) examined the treatise and approved it.

He was also an important religious writer and, in the preface to his treatise that attacked Peter of Bruys, he summed up the five teachings he saw as the errors of the Petrobrusians.

Alabaster says in the preface to his Ecce sponsus venit ( 1633 ), a treatise on the time of the second advent of Christ, that he went to Rome and was there imprisoned by the Inquisition, but succeeded in escaping to England and again embraced the Protestant faith.

These include an outline of Reicha's system for writing fugues, Über das neue Fugensystem ( published as a foreword to the 1805 edition of 36 fugues ), Sur la musique comme art purement sentimental ( before 1814, literally " On music as a purely emotional art "), Petit traité d ’ harmonie pratique à 2 parties ( c. 1814, a short " practical treatise " on harmony ), a number of articles and the poem An Joseph Haydn, published in the preface to 36 fugues ( which were dedicated to Haydn ).

* The ascription to Pamphilus, by Gemmadius, of a treatise Contra mathematicos was a blunder due to a misunderstanding of Rufinus's preface to the " Apology ".

A French refugee at Lausanne, Jean Barbeyrac ( 1674 – 1744 ), published in 1712 the Droit de la nature et des gens, a translation of Puffendorf's treatise, with a striking preface of his own.

William Perkins entrusted to him for publication his treatise, Problema de Romanae Fidei ementito Catholicismo ; Ward published it with a preface addressed to James I, to whom he was shortly afterwards appointed chaplain.

In 1529 he brought out his Oeconomia christiana ( a treatise in German, on the right ordering of a Christian household ) with a dedication to Duchess Sybil of Saxony and a preface by Luther.

In addition to the 1566 manifesto, Coornhert wrote a treatise against the capital punishment of heretics, a pamphlet defending the rebellion of the United Provinces, a preface to the Dutch grammar published by the Society of Rhetoricians of Amsterdam, and a number of poems, including, according to some, the popular song, Wilhelmus van Nassouwe.