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Terminological Reflections of an Enlightened Contextualist1

Robert J. Stainton

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 73 (2):460-468 (2007)

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Quasi Indexicals.Justin Khoo - 2018 - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 100 (1):26-53.details I argue that not all context dependent expressions are alike. Pure (or ordinary) indexicals behave more or less as Kaplan thought. But quasi indexicals behave in some ways like indexicals and in other ways not like indexicals. A quasi indexical sentence φ allows for cases in which one party utters φ and the other its negation, and neither party’s claim has to be false. In this sense, quasi indexicals are like pure indexicals (think: “I am a doctor”/“I am not a (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 12 citations
(1 other version)Terminological reflections of an enlightened contextualist. [REVIEW]Robert J. Stainton - 2006 - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 73 (2):460–468.details From the perspective of certain contextualists, the most worrisome theses of Cappelen & Lepore’s Insensitive Semantics would seem to be: T1: The only context sensitive items are the basic and obvious ones, i.e., pronouns, demonstratives, etc.; T2: Once referents are assigned to these basic and obvious items in a (declarative) sentence, that sentence has truth conditions; T3: This truth-conditional content is asserted when the sentence is used; T4: The content of the assertion made is not thereby fixed, however, because speech (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 2 citations

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