Succintness Exercise

William Lycan argues for theories of higher order representation in the face of criticisms from Dretske, Guzeldere and Siewert who claim that HOR theories are extravagant, unmotivated, confused or worse. Lycan argues giant these claims, however by moving from the definition of a conscious state, to intentionality and intentionality as representation which follows that awareness of, is representation of a mental state which ultimately proves his claim that an individuals conscious state is a slate represented by and their mental state.