ABSTRACT
The main claim of this essay is that meanings are not entities; more cautiously, it is the claim that the hypothesis that meanings are entities can make no contribution to an understanding of meaning. This claim is familiar and one might suppose it needed no repetition. However, the idea that meanings are entities still seems to be considered a live option. I hope to make some slightly different attacks upon it, and also to suggest a positive account of how knowledge of meaning is to be understood if meanings are not entities.
