Preface / Peter Schmitter: From Homer to Plato -- Language, Thought, and Reality in Ancient Greece / Vivian Salmon: Some Views on Meaning in Sixteenth-Century England / Anthony Klijnsmit: Spinoza on the ‘Imperfection of Words’ / Emma Vorlat: The Origin and Development of Language According to Monboddo / Brigitte Nerlich: From Form to Function. The Contribution of Bréal, Wegener and Gardiner to a Semantics of Communication and Comprehension / Werner Hüllen: Rudolf Hallig and Walther von Wartburg’s ‘Begriffssystem’ and its Non-/Acceptance in German Linguistics / Index of Proper Names