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Centred Propositions, What is Asserted, and Communication
Author(s) -
Rudnicki JAKUB
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
theoria
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.34
H-Index - 16
eISSN - 1755-2567
pISSN - 0040-5825
DOI - 10.1111/theo.12215
Subject(s) - indexicality , linguistics , perspective (graphical) , epistemology , sociology , process (computing) , philosophy , computer science , artificial intelligence , operating system
In recent years there has been a heated debate on how to accommodate John Perry's observations about the essentiality of indexicality into our models of linguistic communication. This article is an attempt at providing a new perspective on this issue. I argue that we should jettison two elements taken for granted by the views I present, and criticize, here: no centring , uncentring , recentring and multicentring . These elements are: (1) taking the asserted content to be a part of the communication process and (2) assumptions that the indexical belief of the speaker, when successfully communicated, must be acquired by the hearer as indexical, too. The theory of indexical communication that I propose here is laid out in the mental files framework and devoid of the two aforementioned elements.