indexical
Adjective
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Adjective
indexical
- Of, pertaining to, or like, an index; having the form of an index.
- (linguistics, philosophy) Having the character of pointing to, or indicating, a particular state of affairs.
- 2012, Michael Silverstein, ‘The [] walked down the street’, London Review of Books, vol. 34 no. 21:
- 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.
- 2012, Michael Silverstein, ‘The [] walked down the street’, London Review of Books, vol. 34 no. 21:
indexical (plural indexicals)
- (linguistics, philosophy) An indexical statement.
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