Indexicals and utterance production

Dylan Dodd; Paula Sweeney

doi:10.1007/s11098-009-9416-4

Indexicals and utterance production

Dylan Dodd, Paula Sweeney

Philosophy

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Abstract

We highlight various non-standard mechanisms of communication to both motivate our response to what is known as the ‘answering machine paradoxes’ and to shed light on recent variants of these cases. We claim that the most intuitive solution to these paradoxes requires one to distinguish between the agent (of a context), the tokening of a sentence and the agent’s chosen mechanism of communicating this tokening.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	331-348
Number of pages	18
Journal	Philosophical Studies
Volume	150
Issue number	3
Early online date	26 May 2009
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s11098-009-9416-4
Publication status	Published - Sep 2010

Keywords

answering machine paradox
indexicals
context of utterance
Kaplan
Predelli
pure and impure indexicals

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Dodd, D., & Sweeney, P. (2010). Indexicals and utterance production. Philosophical Studies, 150(3), 331-348. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11098-009-9416-4

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