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Single Idea 18428
[filed under theme 18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 9. Indexical Thought
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Full Idea
When you recall the look of the inside of your house ....where things are relative to one another is what persists in memory, not where they were relative to you when seen.
Gist of Idea
You don't remember your house interior just from an experienced viewpoint
Source
Cappelen,H/Dever,Josh (The Inessential Indexical [2013], 10)
Book Ref
Cappelen,H/Dever,J: 'The Inessential Indexical' [OUP 2013], p.178
A Reaction
This seems to be a very telling example, though you could postulate some system which converts perspectival input into objective information. But why bother? We seek objective information, not perspectives.
The
19 ideas
from 'The Inessential Indexical'
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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18426
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All information is objective, and purely indexical information is not much use
[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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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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