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- noun Plural form of
indexical .
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Examples
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Thus Kaplan's logic of indexicals may help us understand the logic of some philosophically interesting arguments.
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(See Vlach 1973 and Kamp 1973 for early examples of semantic theories for indexicals that use double-indexing.)
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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).
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Kaplan (1989a) also says that indexicals are rigid designators.
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Therefore, many philosophers conclude, Kaplan's theory of indexicals is incorrect.
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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.
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Our initial list of indexicals in English (basically, Kaplan's list) is incomplete.
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A Constitution using temporal indexicals that way presupposes that it is spoken at the Founding, not intergenerationally.
The Volokh Conspiracy » The Constitution and the Golden Calf — A Response to Randy: 2009
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Frege (1984) contains a brief discussion of indexicals.
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Kaplan (1989a) distinguishes between two different sorts of indexical, pure indexicals and true demonstratives.
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