Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In the manner of an index.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In the manner of an index.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In an
indexical way.
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Examples
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Yet at the same time, as its label suggests, verb agreement in sign languages follows the same syntactic restrictions as in spoken languages: in all languages, verbs may agree only with indexically identifiable properties of their subjects and objects person, number, and gender in spoken languages; referential indices in sign languages.
Cool Linguistics Stuff Chris 2005
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Choosing series, in which "players" take turns indexically indicating their selection of one of three possible parallel linelike vegetables - carrots, beans, rhubarb, etc.
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˜I,™ ˜here,™ ˜now™) reference has led some (Kaplan 1979, Perry 1977) to maintain that the content of our states of mind cannot always be constituted by Fregean senses but must be seen as consisting partly of the very objects in the world outside our heads to which we refer, demonstratively, indexically ” another source of support for an ˜externalist™ view of mental content, hence, of intentionality.
Consciousness and Intentionality Siewert, Charles 2006
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