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I, here, and now are indexical expressions. They and others like them have come to be much better understood as a result of recent model- theoretic analyses.1 Somewhat unexpectedly, this theoretical work directs our attention to a distinction between “semantic” and “pragmatic” synonymy.
I have received helpful comments on drafts and presentations of this paper, especially from Anil Gupta, Asa Kasher, and Bas van Frassen. The paper was prompted by a question about Wittgenstein’s “‘p’ says that p” that was proposed to me by Hidé Ishiguro. This research was supported under NSF Grant GS-40698.
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Thomason, R.H. (1976). Necessity, Quotation, and Truth: An Indexical Theory. In: Kasher, A. (eds) Language in Focus: Foundations, Methods and Systems. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol 43. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-1876-0_8
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