Questions tagged [indexicals]
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Can, "Intuitions without concepts are blind," be explained in terms of sentences featuring indexicals?
I.e., imagine an assertion like, "This is that." Taken per se, it is like "thoughts without content [that] are empty," but taken de re, is it blind? If I point at some "this&...
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When truth or falsity are attributed to the liar sentence, is it a truth trope or a falsity trope that is attributed, rather than a Property of Truth?
I was reading the SEP article on tropes and in a section on semantics, it says:
So when we say, "This is a false sentence," is the initial attribution of falsity equivalent to the ...
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