Indexicals

Kaplan's reasons for detaching content from utterances in this way will become clearer when we turn to his logic for indexicals. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Kaplan (1989a) claims that indexicals are devices of direct reference. ❋ Unknown (2009)

One further apparent difficulty with Frege's view is that two utterances containing indexicals would rarely, if ever, express the same sense (or have the same content, to use our previous terminology). ❋ Unknown (2009)

The indexicals that philosophers have studied most are the pronouns ❋ Unknown (2009)

In this section, we discuss a variety of additional issues about indexicals and context-sensitive expressions. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Thus Kaplan's logic of indexicals may help us understand the logic of some philosophically interesting arguments. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Thus Kaplan's theory of indexicals "abstracts away" from utterances to a remarkable degree. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Our initial list of indexicals in English (basically, Kaplan's list) is incomplete. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Kaplan thus claims that his logic of indexicals provides examples of Kripke's (1980) contingent ❋ Unknown (2009)

Therefore, many philosophers conclude, Kaplan's theory of indexicals is incorrect. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The sense of an utterance of an indexical, such as ˜you™, can also be expressed by an utterance of a definite description that contains no indexicals. ❋ Unknown (2009)

But, as Perry (1977) points out, Fred may find it very difficult to produce a description that contains no indexicals that he would be willing to substitute for his utterance of ˜today™ and that uniquely picks out one day. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Kaplan (1989a) also says that indexicals are rigid designators. ❋ Unknown (2009)

(For discussion of plural indexicals, see Nunberg 1993.) ❋ Unknown (2009)

As mentioned before, (true) demonstratives differ from pure indexicals, in that the reference and content an utterance of a demonstrative is not fixed "automatically" by the context's speaker, time, and location. ❋ Unknown (2009)

(See Vlach 1973 and Kamp 1973 for early examples of semantic theories for indexicals that use double-indexing.) ❋ Unknown (2009)

A Constitution using temporal indexicals that way presupposes that it is spoken at the Founding, not intergenerationally. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Frege (1984) contains a brief discussion of indexicals. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Kaplan (1989a) distinguishes between two different sorts of indexical, pure indexicals and true demonstratives. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Schiffer (1978, 1981) avoids some of the problems with Frege's theory by allowing the relevant definite descriptions to contain the indexicals ˜I™ and ˜now™. ❋ Unknown (2009)

[Friend 1]= "What is she on The Index?" Friend 2="Are you crazy? She looks like a [mule], definitely a 0" Friend 1="What is she on The Index?" Friend 2="Go get me that [handle] of Burnetts and I will say 2" ❋ TheIndex (2011)

[yo man]! [use] your index! ❋ Colleen And Ben (2005)

An [index] [shop]. A shop [called] index. ❋ Bee______ (2005)

Index is [a Loli] [Nun]. ❋ Kay Tutan Tayo (2018)

You [usually] [point] with your [index finger]. ❋ PR (2005)

[script kiddie]: [lololol] ill break urban dictionary by going to urbandictionary.com/[index.php] xd urban dictionary: *redirects to define?term=index.php* ❋ Ihfsdihaoifd (2021)

Man, I was so [bored] last night. I was indexing that [forum] from 10 [til] 2. ❋ Smurphy_UK (2008)

[Darby's] was a 17 (cents) on [the urinal] [index]. ❋ Archimedes579 (2010)

[The Rose] Index is absolutely on fire in Russia! I see these absolute [smokeshow] 10's holding hands with these portly drunken 4's of men. That's a whopping 2.5 on [the Rose] Index! ❋ Esorja (2014)

This week [Pierre's] Cougar Index was [106], he nailed [the 45] year old 4 times, the 47 year old 3 times and the 50 year old twice! For a 35 year old, he sure does get lucky a lot. ❋ El Dudarino (2013)