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1 Why do we need a User’s Guide to thought and meaning?; Part One: Language, Words, and Meaning; 2 What’s a language?; 3 Perspectives on English; 4 Perspectives on sunsets, tigers, and puddles; 5 What’s a word?; 6 What counts as the same word?; 7 Some uses of mean and meaning; 8 Objective and subjective meaning; 9 What do meanings have to be able to do?; 10 Meanings can’t be visual images; 11 Word meanings aren’t cut and dried; 12 Not all the meaning is in the words; 13 Meanings, concepts, and thoughts; 14 Does your language determine your thought?; Part Two: Consciousness and Perception; 15 What’s it like to be thinking?; 16 Some phenomena that test the Unconscious Meaning Hypothesis; 17 Conscious and unconscious; 18 What does What is consciousness? mean?; 19 Three cognitive correlates of conscious thought; 20 Some prestigious theories of consciousness; 21 What’s it like to see things?; 22 Two components of thought and meaning; 23 See something as a fork; 24 Other modalities of spatial perception; 25 How do we see the world as out there?; 26 Other feels in experience; Part Three: Reference, Truth, and Thought; 27 How do we use language to talk about the world?; 28 Mismatching reference in conversation; 29 What kinds of things can we refer to? (Cognitive metaphysics, Lesson 1); 30 Referential files for pictures and thoughts; 31 What’s truth?; 32 Problems for an ordinary perspective on truth; 33 What’s it like to judge a sentence true?; 34 Noticing something’s wrong; 35 What’s it like to be thinking rationally?; 36 How much rational thinking do we actually do?; 37 How rational thinking helps; 38 Chamber music; 39 Rational thinking as a craft; 40 Some pitfalls of apparently rational thinking; Part IV: A Larger View; 41 Some speculation on science and the arts; 42 Ordinary and cognitive perspectives on morality; 43 Ordinary and cognitive perspectives on religion; 44 Learning to live with multiple perspectives; Index

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