The Problem of the Essential Indexical

1979/03/01 by John Perry · 2,182 citations
Arts and Humanities · #Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics #Indexicality #Linguistics #Philosophy

paper · doi:10.2307/2214792

published in Noûs 13(1), 3 (Wiley)

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Abstract

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