essay in 2011.

"The Problem of the Essential Indexical"

In 1979, Perry published "The Problem of the Essential Indexical" in which he combined his work on philosophy of language and philosophy of mind. Essential indexicals (I, here, and now) are parts of language that cannot be paraphrased away. They are seen as locating beliefs and are essential to understand the speaker's belief. Perry presents a now famous example to illustrate his point:In this example, the pronoun "I" is essentially indexical because it allowed Perry to

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