The article highlights George Herbert Mead’s and Wilfrid Sellars’ reliance on a behaviourally-grounded conception of meaning as strictly related to the possibility of distinguishing mental from non-mental phenomena as both related to the semantic dimension. Mead’s position is in fact akin to Wilfrid Sellars’ argument that the concepts of ‘inner events’ are essentially inter-subjective. Thoughts are displayed as consisting of related linguistic acts linked inferentially through intra-linguistic moves that respond to a particular ‘language practice’ governed by norms. Introspection is an ‘inner conversation’ (Mead), namely an ‘inner’ speaking analogous to linguistic activity that does not involve actual equivalents of the words in the mind (Sellars).

这篇文章强调了乔治·赫伯特·米德（George Herbert Mead）和威尔弗里德·塞拉斯（Wilfrid Sellars）对行为的依赖，即对意义的观念的依赖，这与在语义维度上与区分心理现象和非心理现象的可能性严格相关。米德的立场实际上类似于威尔弗里德·塞拉斯（Wilfrid Sellars）的论点，即“内部事件”的概念本质上是主体间的。思想被显示为由相关的语言行为组成，这些语言行为通过语言内部的动作推理性地联系在一起，这些动作对由规范支配的特定“语言实践”作出反应。内省是一种“内在对话”（Mead），即类似于语言活动的“内在”讲话，不涉及心中单词的实际等价物（Sellars）。