The referent of the utterance of the indexical is the referent of the relevant definite description. From Wordnik.com. [Again] Reference
But when considering a typically indexical sentence like. From Wordnik.com. [Him] Reference
This is something very like the essential indexical claim. From Wordnik.com. [Kant's View of the Mind and Consciousness of Self] Reference
For the indexical will equally carry information about both. From Wordnik.com. [Higher-Order Theories of Consciousness] Reference
Some of the expressions in Kaplan's list have non-indexical uses. From Wordnik.com. [Again] Reference
˜The hidden-indexical theory's logical-form problem: A rejoinder™ Analysis 56. From Wordnik.com. [Propositional Attitude Reports] Reference
How strictly are we to take the comparison between vague words and indexical terms?. From Wordnik.com. [Vagueness] Reference
An indexical is a term, like ˜I™ or ˜now™, whose referent is context-relative. From Wordnik.com. [Narrow Mental Content] Reference
The two types of indexical differ in how their references and contents are determined. From Wordnik.com. [Again] Reference
Uttered in a fixed context, ˜I™ rigidly designates, even though it is an indexical. From Wordnik.com. [Fitch's Paradox of Knowability] Reference
Two speakers who utter a single sentence that contains an indexical may say different things. From Wordnik.com. [Again] Reference
¦ An agent-neutral reason is one that can be fully specified without such an indexical device. From Wordnik.com. [Reasons for Action: Agent-Neutral vs. Agent-Relative] Reference
But there are more context-sensitive expressions than indexical, deictic and anaphoric pronouns. From Wordnik.com. [Pragmatics] Reference
˜Logical form and the hidden indexical theory: A reply to Schiffer™ Journal of Philosophy 92. From Wordnik.com. [Propositional Attitude Reports] Reference
Since nearly every expression is vague, their views imply that nearly every expression is an indexical. From Wordnik.com. [Again] Reference
On this proposal, there would be a different branch indexical for each complete basis one might specify. From Wordnik.com. [Everett's Relative-State Formulation of Quantum Mechanics] Reference
The indexical concepts fall into types, e.g., first-person concepts and perceptual demonstrative concepts. From Wordnik.com. [Again] Reference
In many respects, Lewis's and Chisholm's theories of indexical belief are very similar to Schiffer's theory. From Wordnik.com. [Again] Reference
For suppose I think that reasons just are facts and also hold that there are no distinctively indexical facts. From Wordnik.com. [Reasons for Action: Agent-Neutral vs. Agent-Relative] Reference
Both star - and dot-quotes are illustrating, and thus indexical, devices, but dot-quotes are, in a sense, doubly so. From Wordnik.com. [Wilfrid Sellars] Reference
Here we will just note three passages in which Kant may be referring to the essential indexical or something like it. From Wordnik.com. [Kant's View of the Mind and Consciousness of Self] Reference
The semantic information of some indexical expression leaves little room for doubts about what to look for in context. From Wordnik.com. [Pragmatics] Reference
Saunders (1995, 1998) has proposed that one think of Everett branches as corresponding to a new indexical akin to time. From Wordnik.com. [Everett's Relative-State Formulation of Quantum Mechanics] Reference
Rather, there are ordinary facts which can be characterized in indexical terms or characterized in non-indexical terms. From Wordnik.com. [Reasons for Action: Agent-Neutral vs. Agent-Relative] Reference
In particular, it led Peirce to realize that some symbolic signs had distinctly indexical (that is non-general) features. From Wordnik.com. [Peirce's Theory of Signs] Reference
Proponents of these new Fregean modes of presentation invoke them to account for indexical features of experience contents. From Wordnik.com. [The Contents of Perception] Reference
The reference and content of a pure indexical in a context does not depend on these sorts of speaker intentions and actions. From Wordnik.com. [Again] Reference
The same applies to places, or to anything else that might be picked up by other implicit indexical features in the sentence. From Wordnik.com. [Model Theory] Reference
According to Frege's theory, there is some non-indexical description that captures the sense of Fred's utterance of ˜today™. From Wordnik.com. [Again] Reference
But in most of what follows, we shall ignore the non-indexical uses of these pronouns, and concentrate on their indexical uses. From Wordnik.com. [Again] Reference
The indexical description will allow in addition indexical terms such as ˜I™ and ˜now™, to specify the center's location. From Wordnik.com. [Narrow Mental Content] Reference
That is to say: if two indexical experiences display the same intentional content, they must refer to the same object (if any). From Wordnik.com. [Edmund Husserl] Reference
It also captures (at a certain level) the cognitive significance of an indexical expression for those competent in the language. From Wordnik.com. [Names] Reference
Continuing disagreement over the identity of the smartest person in the room, clearly a dire case of indexical humorous bias. From Wordnik.com. [Robin Hanson's Intelligence Continues to Amaze Me, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
The potential problem discussed here for location suggests that the contents of experience include indexical contents of some sort. From Wordnik.com. [The Contents of Perception] Reference
They thereby fit with the widely accepted belief that self-reference in the distinctively first-person mode is essentially indexical. From Wordnik.com. [Self-Knowledge] Reference
In the case of indexical expressions, it is hard to see what feature of the meaning of ˜now™, if any, plays both of these two roles. From Wordnik.com. [The Contents of Perception] Reference
Those who suggest that proper names are merely one species of indexical depreciate the power and the mystery of the causal chain theory. From Wordnik.com. [Names] Reference
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