He considered “thought” to be “by far the best word to use” (186), but he acknowledged the difficulty of extending the term to cover sensations, and concluded that “in this quandary we can make no definitive choice. . . . My own partiality is for either FEELING or THOUGHT. . . . I shall probably often use both words in a wider sense than usual,” to refer to “mental states at large, irrespective of their kind” (186). Langer’s choice of the term “feeling” can be seen as an attempt to deal with the same problem, for she stated unequivocally that she intended the term to refer to “what is sometimes called ‘inner life,’ ‘subjective reality,’ [or] ‘consciousness’” (1957b, 112)—to whatever can be said to enter conscious experience, from “the sensibility of very low animals [to] the whole realm of human awareness and thought” (1967, 55).