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indexical (comparativemoreindexical,superlativemostindexical)

1. Of, pertaining to, or like, anindex; having theform of an index.
2. (linguistics, philosophy) Having or imparting ameaning, orsignifying areferent, thatchanges according tocontext.
   • 2012, Michael Silverstein, “The[] walked down the street”, inLondon Review of Books, volume34, number21:

     In order that they might represent the worlds of experience and imagination, such symbols have to be put together with ‘indexical’ signs, as Peirce termed them, such as articles (the, some), demonstratives (this, those), tense-inflections (walk-s, walk-ed), moods (may/might walk, shall/should walk) etc.

indexical (pluralindexicals)

1. (linguistics, philosophy) Anindexical term.
   • 2007 August 15, Wayne A. Davis, “Replies to Green, Szabó, Jeshion, and Siebel”, inPhilosophical Studies, volume137, number 3,→DOI:

     So even withindexicals, there is a Sinn for every meaning.

• Indexicality on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “indexical”, inWebster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.:G. & C. Merriam,1913,→OCLC.
• Indexicals in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

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