David Rosenthal's article is thought-provoking in many useful ways. His notion of higher order thought is certainly congenial to the notion of an object-level and a meta-level in recent formulations of metacognition (e.g., Nelson & Narens, 1990) that Rosenthal cites. However, what I wish to focus upon here, in the spirit of sharpening some of the ideas that he expressed, are a few quibbles and one major item that disappoints me about his article.