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Representations are for Millikan part of a larger group of entities for which she considers there is no generic name in English, and which would include "[n]atural signs, animals' signs, people's signs, indexes, signals, indicators, symbols, representations, sentences, maps, charts, pictures" [LTOBC, 85]. For want of a better term, Millikan calls these entities signs, and claims that what is common to all signs is their being, to a greater or lesser degree, intentional. That is, what all signs have in common, in a family resemblance way, is their bearing a certain relationship to entities other than themselves - a relationship which is usually characterized as "being about something else", "meaning something else". In what follows, I will consider what the nature of this "being about something else" is according to Millikan. I will pay particular attention to mental, or inner, representations, despite the fact that Millikan believes "articulate conventional signs"...

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