Abstract
We highlight various non-standard mechanisms of communication to both motivate our response to what is known as the ‘answering machine paradoxes’ and to shed light on recent variants of these cases. We claim that the most intuitive solution to these paradoxes requires one to distinguish between the agent (of a context), the tokening of a sentence and the agent’s chosen mechanism of communicating this tokening.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 331-348 |
| Number of pages | 18 |
| Journal | Philosophical Studies |
| Volume | 150 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| Early online date | 26 May 2009 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Sept 2010 |
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Keywords
- answering machine paradox
- indexicals
- context of utterance
- Kaplan
- Predelli
- pure and impure indexicals