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- noun philosophy The quality or state of being
indexical
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I suppose the cost of maintaining an amateur interest in a subject is that you end up reinventing the wheel:) Anyway, for what it is worth, here is my modest contribution to the theme of 'extended mind' (which I call 'the problem of indexical extent' after the notion of indexicality in your book):
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I suppose the cost of maintaining an amateur interest in a subject is that you end up reinventing the wheel:) Anyway, for what it is worth, here is my modest contribution to the theme of 'extended mind' (which I call 'the problem of indexical extent' after the notion of indexicality in your book):
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I suppose the cost of maintaining an amateur interest in a subject is that you end up reinventing the wheel:) Anyway, for what it is worth, here is my modest contribution to the theme of 'extended mind' (which I call 'the problem of indexical extent' after the notion of indexicality in your book):
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I suppose the cost of maintaining an amateur interest in a subject is that you end up reinventing the wheel:) Anyway, for what it is worth, here is my modest contribution to the theme of 'extended mind' (which I call 'the problem of indexical extent' after the notion of indexicality in your book):
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I suppose the cost of maintaining an amateur interest in a subject is that you end up reinventing the wheel:) Anyway, for what it is worth, here is my modest contribution to the theme of 'extended mind' (which I call 'the problem of indexical extent' after the notion of indexicality in your book):
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I suppose the cost of maintaining an amateur interest in a subject is that you end up reinventing the wheel:) Anyway, for what it is worth, here is my modest contribution to the theme of 'extended mind' (which I call 'the problem of indexical extent' after the notion of indexicality in your book):
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I suppose the cost of maintaining an amateur interest in a subject is that you end up reinventing the wheel:) Anyway, for what it is worth, here is my modest contribution to the theme of 'extended mind' (which I call 'the problem of indexical extent' after the notion of indexicality in your book):
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Importantly, indexicality does not imply non-rigidity.
Fitch's Paradox of Knowability Brogaard, Berit 2009
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To think that this is sufficient for non-rigidity, Williamson complains, is to confuse non-rigidity for indexicality.
Fitch's Paradox of Knowability Brogaard, Berit 2009
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Summarizing: indexicality in English extends beyond Kaplan's list, though how far beyond is controversial.
Again 2009
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