I should like to conclude by considering a number of topics related to the theory presented in the previous chapters. The first section concerns some epistemological issues, the second an issue in the philosophy of psychology. In the third I attempt to forestall the thought that the view I have developed earns unwelcome consequences for literary or more generally textual interpretation. In the final section I suggest that even if what I have said about what is said is ultimately overturned, much of value will remain.