Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- AUTHOR'S PREFACE -- 1. THOUGHT AND EXPERIENCE -- 2. LEXICOGRAPHY AND LEXICOLOGY -- 3. THE THEORETICAL PRINCIPLES OF LEXICOGRAPHICAL WORK -- 4. THE DUALIST AND MONIST TRENDS IN THE HISTORY OF LINGUISTIC THOUGHT. SOUL AND BRAIN -- 5. PERCEPTIONS AND CONCEPTIONS -- 6. THE SIGN AS AN OBJECT OF PERCEPTION AND AS AN ELEMENT IN A SYSTEM -- 7. THINKING AS A COGNITIVE PROCESS AND THE MYTH- -MAKING POWER OF WORDS. THE CONCEPT OF AN OBJECT OF THOUGHT. THE CONCEPT OF A LAW. TWO SYSTEMS OF SIGNALS -- 8. ON THE FORMS AND TYPES OF PREDICATION -- 9. THE DESIGNATA OF SINGULAR AND GENERAL TERMS AND THE SEMANTIC CONTENT OF THESE TERMS. DIFFERENTIATING REALITY INTO ELEMENTS AND THE SYNTHESIS OF THESE ELEMENTS IN THE PROCESS OF THINKING IN A LANGUAGE. THE HORIZONS OF LEXICOLOGY -- 10. THE CONCEPT OF A WORD THE STRUCTURE OF WORDS AND THEIR FUNCTIONS -- 11. ON DICTIONARY DEFINITIONS OF THE MEANINGS OF WORDS -- INDEX OF SURNAMES -- INDEX OF TERMS, WORDS, FORMS AND STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS