Language and Thought (Thought and Experience, Book 3) Alex Barber What gives our words their meaning? Do we think in a language? How does language give us access to seemingly private thoughts of others? How are we able to think or talk about non-existent entities? How do we manage to understand sentences that we have never seen or heard before, or think thoughts that we have never entertained before? Is there space within a science of the mind or language for a normative notion like error, as when someone thinks or says that the Earth has two moons? Using recent work in the philosophy of mind and language as a vehicle, this book takes up these and other questions that arise in connection with our capacity to think and talk about the world around us.