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I have argued that although Hobbes holds that the linguistic meaning of a name is determined by the role of that name in the cognitive activity of a language user. Names arranged in sentences are signs of thought because the syntax of the sentence expresses metalinguistic information concerning the role the names in the sentence play in the cognition of the speaker. A name so-disposed in an asserted sentence can be a sign only to an audience disposed to interpret speech as significative of thought. But to do this, they must possess prior know-how – the audience must know how to use names as cognitive tools for the sake of recording thoughts into judgments and syllogisms.