Meanings are located neither "inside" or "outside" the mind. Consciousness, the outside world, and language form a unity. In his investigation into externalist and internalist positions (e.g., Locke, Putnam, Kripke), Munz uses selected thought experiments to show that phenomenal and physicalist approaches by no means exclude each other; rather, when determining the meaning of linguistic signs, they can by all means complement each other.
Volker A. Munz
Gedankenexperimente Internalismus Externalismus Sinn und Bedeutung Thought experiments internalism externalism sense and meaning