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- Title
Lessons from Descriptive Indexicals.
- Authors
SÆBØ, KJELL JOHAN
- Abstract
Two main methods for analysing de re readings of definite descriptions in intensional contexts coexist: that of evaluating the description in the actual world, whether by means of scope, actuality operators, or non-local world binding, and that of substituting another description, usually one expressing a salient or 'vivid' acquaintance relation to an attitude holder, prior to evaluation. Recent work on socalled descriptive indexicals suggests that contrary to common assumptions, both methods are needed, for different ends. This paper aims to show that there is indeed a division of labour between the two methods of analysis and to identify criteria for choosing among alternative ways to model the second, substitutional method.
- Subjects
INDEXICALS (Semantics); PHILOSOPHERS; COUNTERFACTUALS (Logic); SUBSTITUTION (Logic); MODAL analysis
- Publication
Mind, 2015, Vol 124, Issue 496, p1111
- ISSN
0026-4423
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/mind/fzv031