 Of course, a speaker could choose not to go along with, so to say, opening the texture this far. But if the explanatory point were nevertheless correct, other speakers could of course simply proceed to define a new word “think*” that lacks the animacy constraint and applies to the explanatory kind that in fact turns out to include, equally, humans and appropriately programmed artifacts. The issue would reduce to merely a verbal quibble: so computers don’t “think”; they “think*” instead. Indeed, it’s a peculiar feature of the entire discussion of the analytic that it can seem to turn on what may in the end be mere verbal quibbles. Perhaps the “linguist turn” of philosophy that we sketched in §§1.2–3.3 led into a blind alley, and it would be more fruitful to explore, so far as possible, conceptual and/or explanatory connections that may exist in our minds or or in the world to a large extent independently of language.