Burge, Tyler

"Consciousness involves awareness of intentional content."

"Representation requires a gap between mind and world."

"Words acquire meaning through their use in context."

"Proper function determines semantic content."

"The reliability of cognitive processes depends on their history."

"To understand is to grasp the conditions for truth."

"Thought extends into the physical and social world."

"Meaning is not purely a matter of individual minds."

"Language use connects us to objective reality."

"Perception provides the foundation for all knowledge."

"Content depends on actual causal relations, not just counterfactuals."

"Understanding others reveals the nature of our own thought."

"Concepts organize experience into meaningful categories."

"The world constrains what we can meaningfully think."

"Intentionality connects consciousness to reality."

"Proper names function to pick out individuals in discourse."

"Shared language enables shared understanding."

"The structure of thought mirrors the structure of world."

"Semantic externalism revises traditional epistemology."

"Content individuates mental states."

"Reference requires more than mental representation."

"Understanding is a matter of grasping extensional facts."

"The community of speakers sustains meaningful discourse."

"Thought about abstract objects depends on their conceptual nature."

"Causation makes representation possible."

"Language allows us to transcend immediate experience."

"Concepts are individuated by their worldly conditions."

"Understanding requires attending to both form and content."

"Intentional states have conditions of satisfaction."

"The transparency of mental content depends on access."