What Is a Representational Thing?

We need the notion of something which represents things as being a certain way, and so can be true or false and have truth conditions. And where are we going to get this notion of a representational thing? My belief is we start with the fundamental presupposition that it's minds that represent. When i look at this table and i see it as brown, my visual system represents this thing as brown. It predicates being brown of that thing that i'm in visual contact witho That's a logical antecedent toi that is the antecedent for language. But it doesn't matter which language i happen to speak.