 Similarity. Many holists have argued that while none of us ever mean precisely what our compatriots and former selves do by our terms, we can still explain communication, change of mind etc. in terms of the fact that the different things that we mean are still extremely similar, so while I don’t mean precisely what my wife means by “cat”, I still mean something extremely similar to what she does because we share most of our beliefs and inferences where that term is concerned. (For versions of something like this approach, see Harman 1973; Block 1986; Churchland 1998; Fultner 1998; Brandom 2007; Schroeder 2007; Jorgensen 2009; Rovane 2013, Dresner 2019; Pollock 2020). 