 What remains to be seen is what counts as a syntactic state. An important account of syntax in the physical world is due to Stephen Stich (1983, 150–157). Although Stich does not use the term “computation,” his account of syntax is aimed at grounding a syntactic account of mental states and processes. Stich’s syntactic theory of mind is, in turn, his interpretation of the computational theories proposed by cognitive scientists—in competition with Fodor’s semantic interpretation. Since Stich’s account of syntax is ultimately aimed at grounding computational theories of cognition, Stich’s account of syntax also provides an (implicit) syntactic account of computation.