Full Idea
Indexical thoughts create an obvious problem with regard to communication. How can we manage to communicate such thoughts to those who are not in the right context?
Gist of Idea
How can we communicate indexical thoughts to people not in the right context?
Source
François Recanati (Mental Files in Flux [2016], 7.1)
Book Reference
Recanati,François: 'Mental Files in Flux' [OUP 2016], p.111
A Reaction
One answer is that you often cannot communicate them. If I write on a wall 'I am here now', that doesn't tell the next passer-by very much. But 'it's raining here' said in a telephone call works fine - if you know the location of the caller.