We are tempted to think that the action of language consists of two parts: an inorganic part, the handling of signs, and an organic part, which we may call the understanding these signs, meaning them, interpreting them, thinking. These latter activities seem to take place in a queer kind of medium, the mind; and the mechanism of the mind, the nature of which, it seems, we don’t quite understand, can bring about effects which no material mechanism could.