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conditional, on one's hypothetical vantage point. We might try something like this: If you walk into the room from the direction of this door here, you 106 Theories of meaning will have an experience as of a chair at the head of the table. But even that depends. It depends on whether you have your eyes open, and it depends on whether your sensory apparatus is functioning properly, and it depends on whether the lights are on, and . . . . These qualifications do not foreseeably come to an end. If we try to build in the appropriate hedges ("If you walk into the room, and you have your eyes open, and your sensory apparatus is functioning, . . . "), more qualifications crop up: Are you walking forward rather than backing into the room? Has something been interposed between you and the chair? Has the chair been camouflaged? Has it been rendered invisible by Martians? Has your brain been altered by a freakish burst of Q-radiation from the sky