"... A philosopher of originality and distinction." Logic and psychology have made spectacular advances in the twentieth century. This book applies our new knowledge to the problem of meaning. What gives meaning to an informative statement? The Field Theory of Meaning seeks the answer by combining what is relevant in the psychology of perception with the details of recent logical and semantic analysis. The author's basic thesis is that words acquire clarity of informative meaning only when they are embedded in a field of meaning. Thus meaning becomes contextual. On the analogy of dynamic field structure of informative meaning. He develops the hypothesis that belief depends on the harmonious balance between the vectors of the field of meaning.