Posted by alexandra_k on August 28, 2005, at 18:08:00
In reply to Re: mystery of the missing indexical.. » zeugma, posted by alexandra_k on August 28, 2005, at 18:03:35
oh.
i might be getting it...
lets have a go...
please correct me if i f*ck it up...two varieties of sense:
character
contentreference
so you take an utterance (lets go with 'I am babbling).
The character is something along the lines of 'the speaker of the utterance is babbling'
The content is determined by the character + the actual world environment. So the character + facts about the actual world determine that...
The referent is 'babbling alexandra_k'
and the referent is designated flacidly because if the context was different the referent would be different.
so...
does that mean that sense is not a ladder that can be disgarded once you have used it to get to the referent????
make sense???
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