Abstract
This paper defends the view, put roughly, that to think that <i>p</i> is to guess that <i>p</i> is the answer to the question at hand, and that to think that <i>p</i> rationally is for one’s guess to that question to be (in a certain sense) non-arbitrary. Some theses that will be argued for along the way include: that thinking is question-sensitive and, correspondingly, that ‘thinks’ is context-sensitive; that it can be rational to think that <i>p</i> while having arbitrarily low credence that <i>p</i>; that, nonetheless, rational thinking is closed under entailment; that thinking does not supervene on credence; and that in many cases what one thinks on certain matters is, in a very literal sense, a choice. Finally, since there are strong reasons to believe that thinking just is believing, there are strong reasons to believe that each of these claims is true of belief as well.
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