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The ESSINDEX project investigates essential indexicality in language, focusing on context-dependent terms like 'I' and 'now'. It aims to reassess the implications of indexicals for understanding thought and communication across various philosophical fields.
My aim in the project ESSINDEX is to understand the phenomenon of essential indexicality.
Indexicals are linguistic terms such as ‘I’, ‘here’, ‘now’, ‘he’, etc. whose referent varies according to the context of use.
For example, an utterance of ‘now’ refers to the time of its utterance.
Like other context-dependence phenomena, indexicality had long been regarded as a defect of natural language.
But in 1970, it was noticed that some thoughts cannot be expressed or communicated without the help of…
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