The Intentionality of the mind not only creates the possibility of meaning, but limits its forms.

Our tools are extensions of our purposes, and so we find it natural to make metaphorical attributions of intentionality to them; but I take it no philosophical ice is cut by such examples.

Dualism makes the problem insoluble; materialism denies the existence of any phenomenon to study, and hence of any problem.

There are clear cases in which "understanding" literally applies and clear cases in which it does not apply; and these two sorts of cases are all I need for this argument.

In many cases it is a matter for decision and not a simple matter of fact whether x understands y; and so on.

If you can't say it clearly, you don't understand it yourself

There is no success or failure in Nature.