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    Supports→The content of thought is not determined individualistically, but is externally determined by causal relations to natural substances and membership in a linguistic community.

    The content of a thought determines the reference and truth conditions of expressions used to report or express that thought.

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    Reaction to the Fregean picture has determined the character of analytic discussions of intentionality or content in another major way. It may be granted that the content of the thought reported is to be identified with the sense of the expression with which we report it. But then, it is argued, the identity of this content will not be determined individualistically, and may in some respects lie beyond the grasp (or not be fully “present to” the mind) of the psychological subject. For what deter

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