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All the ideas for 'Reply to 'Rorarius' 2nd ed', 'Wittgenstein' and 'The Problem of the Essential Indexical'

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8 ideas

11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 4. Belief / b. Elements of beliefs

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Indexicals are a problem for beliefs being just subject-proposition relations [Perry]

15. Nature of Minds / A. Nature of Mind / 4. Other Minds / d. Other minds by analogy

7091	The argument from analogy is not a strong inference, since the other being might be an actor or a robot [Grayling]

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

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If we replace 'I' in sentences about me, they are different beliefs and explanations of behaviour [Perry]

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Indexicals individuate certain belief states, helping in explanation and prediction [Perry]

19. Language / D. Propositions / 6. Propositions Critique

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Indexicals reveal big problems with the traditional idea of a proposition [Perry]

27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 1. Nature of Time / b. Relative time

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Space and time are the order of all possibilities, and don't just relate to what is actual [Leibniz]

27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 2. Passage of Time / c. Tenses and time

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Tense is essential for thought and action [Perry, by Le Poidevin]

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Actual tensed sentences cannot be tenseless, because they can cite their own context [Perry, by Le Poidevin]