 Suppose in any case that the objects of understanding—the connections or relations we grasp when we understand—are out there in the world, and are not simply logico-linguistic items or elements of our psychology. According to a further important distinction from John Greco (2014), it does not follow that these logico-linguistic/psychological items—or more generally these mental representations—do not play a crucial role in our coming to understand, because the representations typically play the role of vehicles of understanding, even if they are not themselves understanding’s object. More generally, Greco notes, it is important to distinguish between the object of understanding vs. the vehicle of understanding, i.e., “between the thing understood and its representation” (Greco 2014: 293).