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I am grateful to Romane Clark, Jaakko Hintikka, Hector-Neri Castañeda, Mark Pastin, Judith Nantell and Robert Swartz for Criticizing drafts of or ideas expressed in this paper.

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Maloney, J.C. The mundane mental language: How to do words with things. Synthese 59, 251–294 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00869336

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