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abstract: "This paper addresses some tricky issues in the area where the philosophy of mind meets the philosophy of language. In it I develop a two-dimensional account of the contents of thought, decomposing content into notional and relational content, both of which are propositional and truth-conditional. Notional content is generally internal to a cognitive system, and governs rational relations between thoughts, so it can play the role of \"narrow\" or \"cognitive\" content. I apply this framework to a number of puzzles (Frege's puzzle, Kripke's puzzle, the problem of the essential indexical, the mode-of-presentation problem, etc.) in the philosophy of mind and the philosophy of language"
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    given: David J.
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date: 1994
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keywords: 'content, two-dimensional, narrow content, internalism, externalism, belief, indexical, possible worlds, Frege, Kripke, Putnam, sense, reference, intenionality, intension.'
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  - phil-lang
  - phil-mind
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title: The Components of Content
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