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19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 9. Indexical Semantics

19233	Indexicals are unusual words, because they stimulate the hearer to look around [Peirce]
	Full Idea: Words like 'this', 'that', 'I', 'you', enable us to convey meanings which words alone are incompetent to express; they stimulate the hearer to look about him.
	From: Charles Sanders Peirce (Reasoning and the Logic of Things [1898], II)
	A reaction: Peirce was once of the first to notice the interest of indexicals, and this is a very nice comment on them. A word like 'Look!' isn't like the normal flow of verbiage, and may be the key to indexicals.