 Just as proponents of Gricean and convention-based theories typically view their theories as only the first stage in an analysis of meaning—because they analyze meaning in terms of another sort of mental representation—so proponents of mental representation-based theories will typically seek to provide an independent analysis of contents of mental representations. For an overview of attempts to provide the latter sort of theory, see the entry on  mental representation  and the essays in Stich and Warfield (1994).