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first to entity theories. There are at least two different kinds of entities that meanings might be taken to be. First, one could take the entities to be mental items. Theories of that kind are sometimes called ideational theories. Ideational theories The whipping boy here is usually John Locke (1690/1955), since Locke seems to have held that the meanings of linguistic expressions are ideas in the mind. On this sort of view, what it is for a string of marks or noises to be mean- ingful is for the string to express, or somehow significantly correspond to, a content-bearing mental state that the speaker is in, an idea, an image, or perhaps a thought or a belief. What is characteristic of ideational theories as  Traditional theories of meaning 67 I am using the term is that the mental states in question are actual states of particular people at particular times.