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simply, truth condition. First reply Put in this way, the argument assumes that "understanding" must itself be a "narrow" or "in the head" concept. That is, to say the least, not obvious. (I leave to you the exercise of constructing a Twin-Earth counterexample.) Realizing that the argument needs a narrow concept of understanding also should make us reconsider the simple equating of "knowing meaning" with understanding and vice versa, truistic as that equating may have sounded at first. Second reply Further, the argument assumes that wide concepts cannot per se figure in the etiology of behavior. As is made clear by the "intentional causation" litera- ture of some years ago, 3 "figuring in" can be done in many ways. There is no doubt that behavior depends counterfactually on wide states of people: Had I wanted water (H 2O), I would have gone into the kitchen to get some. And