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Single Idea 18408
[filed under theme 19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 9. Indexical Semantics
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Full Idea
Once the non-constant characters of expressions has been characterised, there is no further need for additional devices like 'first-person concepts' or 'demonstrative concepts'.
Gist of Idea
Indexicals are just non-constant in meaning, and don't involve any special concepts
Source
Cappelen,H/Dever,Josh (The Inessential Indexical [2013], 01.7)
Book Ref
Cappelen,H/Dever,J: 'The Inessential Indexical' [OUP 2013], p.16
A Reaction
This seems to me to be a wonderfully liberating attack on this issue. There is a kind of creepy mysticism that has been allowed to accrue around indexicals, and it's nonsense.
The
19 ideas
from 'The Inessential Indexical'
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18404
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It is assumed that indexical content is needed to represent the perspective of perception
[Cappelen/Dever]
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18405
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A 'teepee' argument has several mutually supporting planks to it
[Cappelen/Dever]
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18406
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The basic Kaplan view is that there is truth-conditional content, and contextual character
[Cappelen/Dever]
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18408
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Indexicals are just non-constant in meaning, and don't involve any special concepts
[Cappelen/Dever]
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18407
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Indexicality is not significantly connected to agency
[Cappelen/Dever]
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18411
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It is proposed that a huge range of linguistic items are context-sensitive
[Cappelen/Dever]
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18413
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Fregeans can't agree on what 'senses' are
[Cappelen/Dever]
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18414
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Fregeans say 'I' differs in reference, so it must also differ in sense
[Cappelen/Dever]
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18417
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Possible worlds accounts of content are notoriously coarse-grained
[Cappelen/Dever]
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18419
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Folk Functionalism is a Ramsification of our folk psychology
[Cappelen/Dever]
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18420
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We deny that action involves some special class of beliefs
[Cappelen/Dever]
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18421
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Proprioception is only immune from error if you are certain that it represents the agent
[Cappelen/Dever]
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18422
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Prioprioception focuses on your body parts, not on your self, or indexicality
[Cappelen/Dever]
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18423
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All indexicals can be expressed non-indexically
[Cappelen/Dever]
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18425
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We can acquire self-knowledge with mirrors, not just with proprioception and introspection
[Cappelen/Dever]
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18427
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If some of our thought is tied to its context, it will be hard to communicate it
[Cappelen/Dever]
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18426
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All information is objective, and purely indexical information is not much use
[Cappelen/Dever]
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18428
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You don't remember your house interior just from an experienced viewpoint
[Cappelen/Dever]
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18429
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Our beliefs and desires are not organised around ourselves, but around the world
[Cappelen/Dever]
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