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Single Idea 18405

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Full Idea

In a 'teepee' argument, a number of argumentative planks intersupport each other. No plank is sufficiently strong to establish the position, but each lends credibility to the others because there is the appearance of a unified phenomenon.

Gist of Idea

A 'teepee' argument has several mutually supporting planks to it

Source

Cappelen,H/Dever,Josh (The Inessential Indexical [2013], 01.5)

Book Ref

Cappelen,H/Dever,J: 'The Inessential Indexical' [OUP 2013], p.14

A Reaction

To attack it, they say, you have to identify the separate planks of the argument. It is a moot point whether the teepee might be so imprecise that it is better described as 'coherence'. There is a background support, as well as the planks.

The 19 ideas from 'The Inessential Indexical'

18404 It is assumed that indexical content is needed to represent the perspective of perception [Cappelen/Dever]
18405 A 'teepee' argument has several mutually supporting planks to it [Cappelen/Dever]
18406 The basic Kaplan view is that there is truth-conditional content, and contextual character [Cappelen/Dever]
18408 Indexicals are just non-constant in meaning, and don't involve any special concepts [Cappelen/Dever]
18407 Indexicality is not significantly connected to agency [Cappelen/Dever]
18411 It is proposed that a huge range of linguistic items are context-sensitive [Cappelen/Dever]
18413 Fregeans can't agree on what 'senses' are [Cappelen/Dever]
18414 Fregeans say 'I' differs in reference, so it must also differ in sense [Cappelen/Dever]
18417 Possible worlds accounts of content are notoriously coarse-grained [Cappelen/Dever]
18419 Folk Functionalism is a Ramsification of our folk psychology [Cappelen/Dever]
18420 We deny that action involves some special class of beliefs [Cappelen/Dever]
18421 Proprioception is only immune from error if you are certain that it represents the agent [Cappelen/Dever]
18422 Prioprioception focuses on your body parts, not on your self, or indexicality [Cappelen/Dever]
18423 All indexicals can be expressed non-indexically [Cappelen/Dever]
18425 We can acquire self-knowledge with mirrors, not just with proprioception and introspection [Cappelen/Dever]
18426 All information is objective, and purely indexical information is not much use [Cappelen/Dever]
18427 If some of our thought is tied to its context, it will be hard to communicate it [Cappelen/Dever]
18428 You don't remember your house interior just from an experienced viewpoint [Cappelen/Dever]
18429 Our beliefs and desires are not organised around ourselves, but around the world [Cappelen/Dever]