Burge, Tyler

"Proper names carry presuppositions about identity and existence."

"Indexicals show us how context constitutes meaning."

"To think is to engage with a world beyond oneself."

"Causation plays a role in making concepts determinate."

"The content of thought depends on environmental factors."

"Understanding others requires recognizing their intentional states."

"Language-learning reveals the structure of conceptualization."

"Twin Earth intuitions challenge internalist theories of mind."

"Psychological states alone cannot determine semantic content."

"The social dimension of meaning cannot be eliminated."

"Concepts are tools for carving nature at its joints."

"Reference stabilizes across different uses and contexts."

"Belief ascription requires understanding speaker intentions."

"The unity of consciousness connects diverse cognitive processes."

"Thought about the past requires causal chains to history."

"Objects in the world partly constitute our thoughts about them."

"Competence with words goes deeper than mechanical rule-following."

"Misrepresentation is possible only with genuine representational content."

"The individuation of thoughts depends on their worldly objects."

"Perception grounds conceptual thought in sensory experience."

"We cannot think about what has no potential to exist."

"Language mirrors the structure of reality it represents."

"Meaning emerges from the interaction of mind and world."

"Understanding requires recognizing both intention and context."

"The mind reaches into the world through intentionality."

"Concepts carve out stable identities in a changing world."

"Genuine thought requires more than internal processing."

"The social nature of knowledge extends through communities."

"Causal relations ground our ability to refer."

"Understanding presupposes shared frameworks of interpretation."