 Popper proceeds to explicate his distinction between the subjective and objective senses of knowledge by reference to this ontology. The subjective sense of knowledge relates to psychological processes and states, mental dispositions, beliefs and expectations, which may generically be termed “thought processes” and which belong to world 2. Knowledge in the objective sense, by contrast, consists not of thought processes but of thought contents, that is to say, the content of propositionalised theories: it is