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    The analyticity of 'I am here now' presupposes that index... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Two-dimensional semantics can handle situations where necessity and analyticity come apart

    The analyticity of 'I am here now' presupposes that indexicals have stable semantic rules across contexts, but Kaplan's own framework shows that character, not content, is what generates this truth.

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    Contexts(as what gets fed into Kaplan's character function)
    The specific circumstances in which something is said—things like who is speaking, where they are, and when they're speaking.
    David Kaplan(as the philosopher being cited)
    An influential American philosopher who studied how language works, particularly how words like 'I' and 'this' get their meaning from the situation in which they're used.
    Semantic rules(the rules that govern the meanings of indexicals)
    The set of guidelines that determine what a word or phrase actually means and how to interpret it correctly.
    analyticity(Quine regards this as a problematical concept)
    The property of a sentence being true by virtue of meaning alone
    character

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    (Semantic theory of indexical expressions; terminology due to Kaplan (1989))
    A rule which determines the content of an expression given a context of utterance; formally, a function (or something that determines a function) from contexts to contents.
    content(Possible worlds semantics)
    The proposition expressed by a sentence; in possible worlds semantics, content is identified with an intension.
    indexicals(Philosophy of language, semantics)
    Expressions whose reference depends on the context of utterance, such as 'I' or 'here'

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