Full Idea
Singularity and indexicality are closely related: for indexicals systematically exploit the contextual relations in which we stand to what we talk about.
Gist of Idea
Indexicality is closely related to singularity, exploiting our direct relations with things
Source
François Recanati (Mental Files [2012], 2.2)
Book Reference
Recanati,François: 'Mental Files' [OUP 2012], p.21
A Reaction
Recanati builds a nice case that we may only have an ontology of singular objects because we conceptualise and refer to things in a particular way. He denies the ontology, but that's the bit that interests me.
Related Idea
Idea 16353 Singularity cannot be described, and it needs actual world relations [Recanati]