Saturday, November 30, 2013

Description and Indexical

Any description is necessarily subsequent to its object, as is implied in the term 're-present'.  Thus, what is commonly formulated as 'S is P' is, more accurately, "It was the case that 'S is P'", or, simply, 'S was P'.  Now, Verb Tense is classified in contemporary Logicist Philosophy of  Language as an 'Indexical', i. e. as an indication of an orientation from the perspective of a speaker.  Hence, in all presumed 'impersonal' descriptive Logicist Propositions, e. g. the 'Language' that 'pictures' the 'world' in the Tractatus, their origin in interpersonal Communication is suppressed.

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