A speaker can refer to the day of utterance with 'today' without having an adequate purely qualitative conception of what day it is

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1.Rip Van Winkle, upon waking on October 20, 1823, says 'Today is October 20, 1803' — he is wrong about the date but is still referring to October 20, 1823 with his use of 'today'
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2.The reference of 'today' is determined by when the speaker is located, not by the sense or conception the speaker associates with the word
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3.It suffices to be located on a given day and know the general rule governing uses of 'today' in order to refer to that day
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Perry's second objection is the nonnecessity of belief objection. This objection turns on the fact that a speaker can refer to the time at which she is speaking with her use of ‘today’ even though she lacks any adequate purely qualitative conception of what day it is. Consider the case of Rip Van Winkle. “When he awakes on October 20, 1823, and says with conviction ‘Today is October 20, 1803,’ the fact that he is sure he is right does not make him right, as it would if the thought expressed were

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