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rate, because the most common naive idea people have about meaning is that meaning is reference. In chapter 1 we disparaged the commonsensical but untenable Referential Theory of Meaning. So we must now confront mean- ing directly, and look at some more sophisticated theories of meaning. Like any theory, a theory of meaning has to have a proprietary set of data. What are the primary data for a theory of meaning? I will refer to them cor- porately as "the meaning facts." First, as we emphasized in chapter 1, there is meaningfulness itself. Some strings of marks or noises in the air are just strings of marks or noises in the air, whereas others--particularly whole sentences--are meaningful. What is the difference? Perhaps that is the basic question for the theory of meaning. 66 Theories of meaning Second, we sometimes say that two distinct expressions are synonymous.