Frege’s theory of hybrid proper names extended

• Autores: Mark Textor
• Localización: Mind, ISSN-e 1460-2113, Vol. 124, Nº. 495, 2015, págs. 823-847
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • According to Frege, neither demonstratives nor indexicals are singular terms; only a demonstrative (indexical) together with ‘circumstances accompanying its utterance’ has sense and singular reference. While this view seems defensible for demonstratives, where demonstrations serve as non-verbal signs, indexicals, especially pure indexicals like ‘I’, ‘here’, and ‘now’, seem not to be in need of completion by circumstances of utterance. In this paper I argue on the basis of independent reasons that indexicals are in fact in need of completion; I identify the completers as uses of circumstances of utterance by the speaker; and I show how these uses together with the utterance of indexical sentences express thoughts. The starting point of the paper is a criticism of Kripke’s and Künne’s alternative treatment of indexicals in Frege’s framework.