Acknowledgments page ........................................... ix
Introduction .................................................... i
PART 1: THE FORM OF THINKING .................................. 5
1 Two Ways of Saying "I" ....................................... 7
2 Further Kinds of Declaratives ............................... 22
3 Linguistic Syntax and Human Reason .......................... 31
4 The Person as the Agent of Syntax: Predication .............. 48
5 Reason as Public: Quotation ................................. 68
6 Grammatical Signals and Veracity ............................ 80
PART II: THE CONTENT OF THINKING ............................. 97
7 The Content of What Is Said: Essentials and Accidentals ..... 99
8 Properties and Accidents Reveal What Things Are ............ 117
9 Knowing Things in Their Absence: Pictures, Imagination,
and Words .................................................. 136
10 Mental Representations ..................................... 157
11 What Is a Concept and How Do We Focus on It? ............... 177
PART III: THE BODY AND HUMAN ACTION .......................... 191
12 The Body and the Brain ..................................... 193
13 Active Perception and Declaratives ......................... 205
14 Mental Images and Lenses ................................... 225
15 Forms of Wishing ........................................... 238
16 Declaring Our Wishes and Choices ........................... 253
PART IV: ANCIENTS AND MODERNS .............................. 271
17 Aristotle .................................................. 273
18 Thomas Aquinas ............................................. 286
19 Conclusion, with Henry James ............................... 304
Bibliography .................................................. 325
Index ......................................................... 333
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