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self and essential indexicality  

Definition

  • What connects the topics of the self and essential indexicality is the first-person term: I, me, mine, my, and their cognates (“I” for short). This is because, as it is now commonly thought, (a) I refers to the self, (b) I is an indexical term, and (c) I is an essential term. [Source: Encyclopedia of Philosophy and the Social Sciences; Self and Essential Indexicality]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-HL2XCDCG-5

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